Monochrome photo of a lone person on the skyline overlooking a dense flock of sheep
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The Old West / People / Sheep Herders

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Colored photo of men and horse drawn wagons in front of pens dense with sheep
Sheep Ranch, North of Billings, Mont.

Postmarked 1909. Reverse reads "A. No. 840. American Import Co., Publishers, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Made in Germany"

Black and white vignette photo of a long shed lined by men shearing sheep
"Sheep Shearing," and "Holmes and Rixon, Billings, Mont."

Postmarked June 16, 1906. The text from the sender reads "hello Ruth - Papa Burlington Route June 12 - 1906 Edgemont S.D. mailed at Omaha July 13 - 7 am St Paul tonight"

Reverse reads '2505 Bloom Bros., Publishers, Minneapolis, Minn. Made in U.S.A.'
Sheep going to Market, Billings, Mont.
Monochrome photo of men on a dock unloading sacks from cattle drawn wagons
Front reads, "Palmy days of the Wool Industry in Montana" and "18276 C. U. Williams Photoette Bloomington, [Ill?]" Dated 1916.
Sepia toned photo of sheep on the range around a herder's covered wagon
Sender wrote on front, "'Wild and woolly' in more ways than one. A tipical [sic] Montana sheep herder's camp. A. D." Postmarked Feb. 24, 1908.

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