Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Columbus Taking Possession of the

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

the bedside grief of a young republic learning

It is the Victorian mind at its most reverent — measuring the firmament with calipers

A portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a sundering nation on their shoulders — the long face

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Columbus Taking Possession of theDaniel 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