Main Street Pendleton Oregon Size:24x18 pairing the Plumed Knight of

pairing the Plumed Knight of Maine with the black-eyed soldier-senator from Illinois on a ticket Cleveland would narrowly bury that November

the frontier myth hardening into household scripture just as the actual frontier was being closed by rail and treaty

shorthand for an America newly inclined to project its power across oceans

Whether taken before Appomattox or after

its tall conical shaft and lantern-room geometry inked with the precision of engineers who knew the 8th District's hurricanes would test every course of masonry they specified

Main Street Pendleton Oregon Size:24x18 pairing the Plumed Knight ofMain Street Pendleton Oregon arrives in a wide brimmed bustle of woolen mills and wheat country prosperity storefronts marching beneath painted awnings, Model T's angled along the curb, and ranch hands in from the Umatilla range for the roundup. A cow town capital of saddle leather and stockmen's banks, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early decades of the last century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from