Hundreds of bathers crowd the buoyant briny waters of the Great Salt Lake beneath the striped onion domes of Saltair Pavilion — the "Coney Island of the West" — in this vivid linen-era card that practically vibrates with the energy of a 1920s summer resort at full throttle. Saltair, with its Moorish architecture, roller coaster, and vast open-air dance floor, was a beloved Utah institution reached by electric railway in just twenty-five minutes from Salt Lake City. A traveler named Mother wrote on the back to her daughter Ernestine at the W.S.V. Hospital in Bay Pines, Florida: "9/o/28 So far on my trip. Will leave here 8 on Tuesday for Yellowstone Park. Be back D.C. amlblest 2— Mother." — a brief, breezy note from a woman adventuring through the American West in the late summer of 1928.