General Taylor at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Jackson Monument in the City

Jackson Monument in the City of Washington 1848

the frontier myth hardening into household scripture just as the actual frontier was being closed by rail and treaty

The scene belongs to that brief Gilded Age moment when river steamers were both workhorse and showpiece

July 21st 1861 — the first great clash along the Manassas creekbed

and the Cherokee marched west under the long shadow of a presidency that remade the office in its own iron likeness

General Taylor at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Jackson Monument in the CityGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 a martial lithograph from the opening salvo of the Mexican War, where Zachary Taylor's artillery answered Arista's lancers across the Texas chaparral and Manifest Destiny found its first powder smoke proof. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic