US Patent No. 249743 Device for Holding Horses Tails by W B Butcher November 22 1881 declaration print the moment before the dragoon

the moment before the dragoon charge that overran Mexican guns and gave the young republic a taste of the conquest its politicians had been promising

downtown clinics drawn with the careful gravity of a place where the country came to be healed

The parlor here is a balm

Frontier Life 1875 — a documentary engraving from the year Custer was charting the Black Hills and the treaty ink was already drying into broken promise

339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 Simjian's engineering filing arrives at the height of the postwar bowling boom

US Patent No. 249743 Device for Holding Horses Tails by W B Butcher November 22 1881 declaration print the moment before the dragoonUs Patent No. 249743 Device for Holding Horses Tails by W B Butchers November 22 1881 Butcher's inventor's diagram belongs to the era of the trotting track and the harness race, when a horse's tail, left to its own devices, could foul the reins mid stride. The schematic shows a tidy clamping apparatus meant to gather and hold that tail aloft, a small mechanical courtesy from the age of the sulky. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts