Chicago as it Was Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when a Kansas colonel waded

when a Kansas colonel waded into the Rio Grande de Pampanga and turned a muddy crossing into the kind of dispatch-copy that minted American empire in newsprint

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and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

in lithographed script

printed in the brisk civic optimism of a republic still bandaging itself

Chicago as it Was Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when a Kansas colonel wadedChicago as it Was a backward glance at the prairie city before the fire and the steel, rendered in the wistful idiom of a lithograph that knew it was already documenting a place lost to its own ambition. The title alone admits the verdict: Chicago had become something else. 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