Battle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 — Americans Under General Taylor Vintage New York Art the parchment's cadence and their

the parchment's cadence and their gathered portraits arranged as a single act of nerve — ink committed to paper while the outcome of the war was still anyone's guess

The Celestial Hierarchy a Study in Planetary Scale arranges the wandering worlds shoulder to shoulder

where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering

reissued as the republic stretched westward and quarreled with itself — the same fifty-six signatures that wagered everything on a sentence

The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle

Battle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 — Americans Under General Taylor Vintage New York Art the parchment's cadence and theirBattle of Palo Alto, May 8th 1846 Americans Under General Taylor. The opening engagement of the Mexican War rendered with all the swagger of Manifest Destiny in full march Zachary Taylor's artillery duel on the Texas chaparral, a prelude to annexation drawn while the smoke was still settling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical