Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the bracketed war years stamped

the bracketed war years stamped beside an 1885 reunion date

where a planet could be found by arithmetic alone

Battle of Wilson's Creek

when a colonial assembly dared to write conscience into law and a young republic

The lithograph reads less as reportage than as prophecy

Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the bracketed war years stampedBird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. A documentary engraving of Zachary Taylor's encampment on the Nueces in 1845 tents fanned across the Gulf scrub, an army arranged like a wager, waiting for the war with Mexico that Manifest Destiny had already written. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical