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Archives On The Air 81: Saratoga Is A Tourist Town—The Garrett Price Papers

Garrett Price was a cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications in the early 20th century. He grew up in Saratoga, Wyoming. Price attended University of Wyoming from 1912-1914.

His papers contain a letter from a childhood friend, Paul Jones. Paul Jones wrote in 1946 to tell Price about how Saratoga had changed.

Jones wrote, “Saratoga hasn’t changed much, but the people has. It is now a tourist town.”

Jones went on to tell Price about dude ranchers that “cater to wealthy easterners,” and gambling that was “wide open and everything goes.”

Jones said “During the tourist season fifty percent of the people don’t get out of bed before ten A.M. and the other fifty percent don’t go to bed until then.

Garrett Price saw comedy in the changing west. He drew many cartoons that poked fun at the growing tourism and commercialization.

Garrett Price’s papers at UW’s American Heritage Center contain hundreds of his published and unpublished cartoons.