Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma sinewy men who made the

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor

ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

a late portrait of the Union's hardest rider rendered in the elegiac register of a republic still cataloging its survivors

Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma sinewy men who made theJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,