Sunset Magazine November 1918

Sunset Magazine November 1918. The cover features enormous cream "Sunset" lettering with "November" and "20 cents" in brown script above, and "THE PACIFIC MONTHLY" below. A warm, earthy mountain landscape in browns and oranges fills the background, with an artist's signature visible, evoking the rugged beauty of the West at the close of World War I. Dated the final month of World War I — the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918 — this cover's serene Western landscape offered readers a vision of peace as the war drew to a close. Six years after the merger, Sunset still carried The Pacific Monthly in its masthead, speaking to a West emerging from wartime.