Personally, travel brochures, past and present,can provide for some interesting creative writing. Case in point is the Western Pacific’s Railroad brochure: A Story of the Feather River Canyon. While it has no date, there are details inside that is was probably published for the Panama Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. While the brochure focus on the many attributes of the Feather River Canyon, it had this interesting piece about Honey Lake.

“Away from the Feather River are the lakes—the most wonderful lakes of the American continent—and these are reached by rail in connection with the ever convenient automobile stage. The pearl  of Lassen County is Honey Lake, so long famous for its waterfowl that even pioneers knew of it in their day; and one of the most traveled overland trails, branching off in Wyoming, had this lake as its objective. Honey Lake and the country thereabout is readily reached by leaving the main line at Doyle.”

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