Shepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon'1 manhattan street art with all the powder-smoke confidence

with all the powder-smoke confidence of a republic certain its borders had not yet found their proper shape

and Golden Gate views lithographed before the bridge ever spanned them

its rotunda windows surveying the gorge where basalt cliffs plunge toward the river's silver bend

it reads as both roster and elegy

where Burnside fed wave after wave of Union infantry into a stone wall and a sunken road

Shepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon'1 manhattan street art with all the powder-smoke confidenceShepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in basalt and falling water the slender cascade threading down moss darkened cliffs, the graceful arch of the highway bridge spanning the gorge, and motorcars idling at the overlook where ferns crowd the rail. A monument to the engineered scenic road, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the touring era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard