Lincoln as Boy 1914 old jamaica map where prairie meets Rockies and

where prairie meets Rockies and every vista was worth a two-cent stamp

securing his family's fortune one sentence at a time

each crescent

when Guastavino tilework arched overhead like the nave of a buried cathedral and the first downtown trains slid through Heins & LaFarge's vaulted dark

Lincoln as Boy 1914 old jamaica map where prairie meets Rockies andLincoln as Boy 1914 a 1914 backward glance at the rail splitter before the railsplitting, issued in the year Europe went to war and America began rehearsing the myths it would soon need most. The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come. 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 lithographic publishers