General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 and the long Wasatch ridges

and the long Wasatch ridges sketched by hands that knew how silence photographs

the gold-domed Capitol presiding over a railroad town rebuilt from ash

printed in that brittle season when the Union still pretended compromise might hold and Kansas was already bleeding into the headlines

when the great voice of the Senate had spent itself defending the Compromise of 1850 and the Union it could not

The Celestial Orrery a Lecture on the Heavenly Spheres unfolds like a parlor sermon in brass and ink — concentric orbits wheeling around a small

General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 and the long Wasatch ridgesGeneral Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs, 1885. A study of the dying general at his desk, racing throat cancer to finish the manuscript Twain would publish the soldier who took Vicksburg and Appomattox now waging a final campaign in ink, securing his family's fortune one sentence at a time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional