A weathered "BRAZOS RIVER" highway sign anchors the left foreground while a graceful Pratt through-truss steel bridge — clearance 15 ft 9 in, built 1889 — arcs across the muddy water toward a canopy of Texas hardwoods, marking the exact spot where covered wagons and stagecoaches once waited for the Brazos River Ferry in the Republic of Texas era. Granbury, Hood County's seat, sits just downstream, and this bridge was for decades the town's only crossing, a daily lifeline for ranchers and traders heading toward Fort Worth. The Artistichrome chrome card was photographed and published by Strykers' Western Fotocolor of Fort Worth — the same regional publisher that documented countless Texas landmarks for roadside tourist racks in the 1960s. The card is unused and unaddressed, its colours bright and its stock crisp, making it an appealing piece for Texas history and covered-wagon-trail collectors alike.