General John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the ink barely dry on

the ink barely dry on Appomattox and Ford's Theatre

The Celestial Mechanics of Wandering Worlds charts the planets in their solemn errantry — those bright vagabonds the Greeks called planētes

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The scene hums with carriage trade and old-money swagger

Fits a cigar lounge

General John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the ink barely dry onGeneral John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny, fixing Wool astride his line on the chaparral plateau where Santa Anna's columns broke and the young republic discovered the taste of imperial victory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical