Death of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) framed sports art when the Great Strike paralyzed

when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil-soaked solidarity

elevated from the Senate chamber the year Polk's war closed and the slavery question began its slow scald through Pennsylvania's anthracite politics

would have to hold the light steady against every hurricane season

his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking

rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time

Death of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) framed sports art when the Great Strike paralyzedDeath of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud, rendering the fallen war chief at the moment American expansion required him to become legend rather than adversary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical