In about 1907, Lindsley moved to Lake Chelan and lived at his parents' ranch. During this time, he was employed by the Great Northern Railway to photograph Glacier National Park for the railroad's tourist literature. In September 1916, Lindsley was hired by the Great Northern Railway as a guide for the party of author Mary Roberts Rinehart through the North Cascades. Lindsley figured prominently as Silent Lawrie, a character in her account of the expedition, in a Cosmopolitan magazine article entitled, A Pack Train in the Cascades, and later in her 1918 novel, Tenting To-Night.