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A view from 1939:

WEST YELLOWSTONE, (6,665 alt., 300 pop.), the western entrance to the park, is a tourist town, full of eager competition and alert service. Here thousands arrive each summer—on the Union Pacific R.R., whose Yellowstone branch ends here, by automobile, and by plane from Great Falls or Salt Lake City. There are some visitors who have been here often but there is an ever-increasing horde of dudes. Every variation of western costume appears. In winter the town is abandoned, snow-bound, its many shops boarded up.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.