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Beartooth Lake and Beartooth Butte, Wyoming, circa 1934

Subjects
Lakes & PondsNational & State Parks
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1934 (Linen)
Front of Beartooth Lake and Beartooth Butte, Wyoming, circa 1934, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA, c. 1934 linen postcard
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Back of Beartooth Lake and Beartooth Butte, Wyoming, circa 1934, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA, c. 1934 linen postcard
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About this postcard

Beartooth Lake lies beneath Beartooth Butte, a flat-topped mass of reddish sedimentary rock in the Beartooth Mountains of northwestern Wyoming. The card presents the pair as a scenic stop on the Red Lodge to Cooke City highway, the route promoted as the northeast entrance approach to Yellowstone National Park through Red Lodge, Cooke City, and Silver Gate. That road, completed in 1936, gave motorists from the Billings direction a high, direct mountain crossing into Yellowstone and quickly became a sightseeing route in its own right. Sanborn Souvenir Co. of Denver, a prolific publisher of western view cards, issued the image for the tourist trade the new highway brought through the region.

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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
1044—BEARTOOTH LAKE AND BEARTOOTH BUTTE ON RED LODGE—COOKE CITY HIGHWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Northeast entrance route from Billings via Red Lodge, Cooke, and Silver Gate.
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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
ConditionGood
Place mentionedYellowstone National Park, WY
PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, CO
NotesLinen-textured stock with visible crosshatch; small printed credit "© FLASH" at lower left; no white border. No postmark — unused card with no handwriting. Divided-back linen-texture chrome card; blue imprint of C.T. Art-Colortone / Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.; card number 4A-H1856. Clean, light age toning only.

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Beartooth Lake and Beartooth Butte, Wyoming, circa 1934, postcard, c. 1934. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/beartooth-lake-and-beartooth-butte-wyoming-circa-1934. Accessed November 2, 2026.