Two early open-topped touring automobiles — one vivid red, passengers in dusters and motoring hats — navigate the narrow, precipitous ledge of Ute Pass above a turquoise mountain stream and cascading waterfall near Manitou, Colorado, in this gorgeous hand-colored linen-era postcard that captures the thrilling dawn of automobile tourism in the American West. The road, carved into the sheer canyon wall and advertised here as part of the Lincoln Trans-Continental Highway, follows the ancient Ute Indian trail that generations of Indigenous people used to travel between the Great Plains and the mountains — a fact the card's own reverse text proudly notes. Rocky cliffs tower above; a third vehicle picks its way along a higher switchback. The reverse identifies this as card no. 5075 from what appears to be a Colorado-themed series, with the distinctive Native American figure/arrow logo characteristic of several western postcard publishers, and notes the domestic rate of one cent and foreign rate of two cents — postal rates that bracket this card firmly in the 1907–1917 window, with the Lincoln Highway reference (est. 1913) further pinning it post-1913.