Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Battle of the Thames

Battle of the Thames

A portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a sundering nation on their shoulders — the long face

the Capitol dome rising like a smaller cousin of Washington's over a city of lake steamers and university quadrangles — a postcard town where lithographed views of State Street and linen cards of the Memorial Union terrace did steady work through the golden age

it reads as a republic taking inventory of itself before the century turned grim

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Battle of the ThamesDaniel 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