Dozens of fat Merino sheep graze contentedly on a riverside meadow — their woolly backs crowding the foreground while a broad river (likely the Columbia or Snake) mirrors the warm evening sky and a dramatic basalt cliff rises on the far bank, a lone windmill tower marking some distant ranch. This hand-tinted "Sheep Raising on a Western Range" postcard captures the pastoral side of the early 20th-century American West, published in Salt Lake City during the peak years of Utah and Idaho range sheep culture. In July 1913, a sender in Salt Lake City dashed off a densely written note to a woman named Mary at 1229 E. Knox St. in Galesburg, Illinois — the message mentions "a cabin," "a valley," a woman named "Ottilia M." being invited, and observations on the scenery, suggesting the writer was on a Western holiday or had recently arrived. The 1-cent Washington green stamp is neatly cancelled with the Salt Lake City machine cancel dated July 30, 1913.