Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table

1836 — a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic

Wheeler 1876 — a Republican campaign lithograph from the centennial year

and the document was already passing from law into legend

Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art A documentary engraving of theLife of Our Pioneers 1915 looks backward even as the world tilts forward, a 1915 commemorative tribute to the wagon road generation issued just as American boys were being measured for a different kind of frontier across the Atlantic. The pioneer here is already memory sanctified, archived, and quietly enlisted into the republic's second sober century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library