Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy the bedside grief of a

the bedside grief of a young republic learning

refighting Tippecanoe on paper to elect a president three decades later

Every crater rim and shadowed basin reads like masonry — the firmament's broken cathedral

it reads as a republic taking inventory of itself before the century turned grim

Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 — a chromolithograph struck for the Columbian quadricentennial

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy the bedside grief of aDaniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 a Centennial era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch, rifle leveled at the cabin door, the frontier myth hardening into household scripture just as the actual frontier was being closed by rail and treaty. 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