Mailed from the windswept plains of early Texas, this pre-linen lithograph postcard of General Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive, Manhattan, carried a small-town woman's news across hundreds of miles — its glossy color image of the gleaming Neoclassical granite mausoleum (opened 1897, the largest in North America) contrasting charmingly with the dusty rural world of its sender. Two American flags flank the colonnaded portico, a bronze Grant statue commands the approach, and tiny Edwardian-era visitors populate the grounds. On the reverse, in a looping, energetic hand, a writer named Knozie tells her friend Annie all about her new home and a new P.O. address in Ego, Texas — a real, if tiny, Palo Pinto County community. The Mathis, Texas postmark reads February 27, 1909, with a one-cent domestic rate, printed on an Arthur Capper / Topeka publisher's card backed by the Rock Island Post Card Co. imprint on the stamp box area — a fascinating cross-publisher artifact.