Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 Frame Style:Ebony Frame New Mexico arrives in adobe

New Mexico arrives in adobe ochre and turquoise sky — pueblo missions baked into the mesa

and the slow grinding labor of holding a republic together with proclamations and patient sorrow

the date insists on grief

half a year before an assassin's bullet would promote him into the office no one expected him to hold

Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 Frame Style:Ebony Frame New Mexico arrives in adobeJoel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 a portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer at the height of Van Buren's troubled administration, his tenure shadowed by the forced removals along the Trail of Tears and the slow churn of Seminole war in the Florida swamps. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical