"one needs not necessarily go to Europe" -- Lombardi visit the Yoho Valley

Smithsonian Institution, 1913

In 1906, Maurice Lombardi was about to take up a new job in Dallas after having been in Portland for several years.  Part of his contract with E. L. Belo company was that he would never spend summers in Dallas.  And so before moving to Dallas, he, his wife, daughter Lucy (my great grandmother) and son Conelious took a month vacation to the Canadian Rockies.  They stayed several days at Lake Louise and then went onto the Yoho Valley which the Canadian Pacific Railway was making into a destination as well.  They met a Mrs. and Miss Emerson on their trip -- it is unclear if this was intentional or just one of those fortuitous meetings of like-minded people.  Maurice notes that the Emersons were relatives of Ralph Waldo Emerson in some manner.  Once they reached the Yoho Valley, Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Lombardi stayed at the Lodge at Emerald Lake.

Library of Congress 1902

Maurice, Cornelius, Lucy and Miss Emerson went off on horseback with a guide to go up to the Yoho Valley and see the glaciers that created the Twin Falls.  The Canadian Pacific Railway had set up camps for guests to stay in after each day's ride, complete with as Maurice notes "tents, beds, clean linen, and an attendant at each place."  Maurice was most impressed with the mechanics of the Twin Falls.  In the morning, the rate of melting glacier was only enough for one fall, but by the afternoon both were falling intensely as the sun increased the rate of falling.  He clearly gloried in the adventure and used it to promote as the title of this piece suggests the attitude that not all wonders needed to be found on other continents.
  

Library of Congress, 1900-1910