Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy with bunting and oratory

with bunting and oratory

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

the bedside grief of a young republic learning

and the wave-cut cliffs of Block Island stamped onto linen and lithograph

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

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy with bunting and oratoryDaniel 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