Item 40: Sheep going to market, Billings, Montana, 1914

Color image shows hundreds of sheep being herded through a prairie by a man on horseback. A horse-drawn cart and a horse-drawn covered wagon accompany the herd. Huge rocky bluffs are in the background view. The handwritten note on the reverse reads: "Billings - Montana - Heir [sic] you see a thousand or more sheep - sometimes out this way - one man stays with as many as a thousand sheep - for months out on the prairie - He lives in a wagon - such as you see in left of picture ." Postmarked Feb. 18, 1914 in Billings. 13.5 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.