A view across a dry, grass-and-shrub dotted bench to a line of banded red sandstone buttes in the foreground, with pale, heavily eroded badland cliffs and a flat mesa rim closing the horizon under a clear sky. The scene is typical of the high desert country of the American Southwest, where soft sedimentary layers have been carved into buttes and gullies by wind and flash floods. No caption identifies the exact site.
Red sandstone buttes and eroded badlands, American Southwest, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/red-sandstone-buttes-and-eroded-badlands-american-southwest. Accessed October 24, 2026.
