Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley'2 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap that great Irish reflector through

that great Irish reflector through which the Earl coaxed cratered shadows into legible grief

drawn in the hush of a republic that had won its war only to lose its president in the same breath

briefly the tallest building on earth and a granite advertisement for the Loop's vertical ambitions on the eve of the Columbian Exposition

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

his nickname already doing the political work that would carry him to the White House two years later — Manifest Destiny in epaulets

Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley'2 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap that great Irish reflector throughRainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley arrives in glacier light and wildflower bloom the great peak crowned in eternal snow, meadows tumbling lupine and paintbrush across Paradise Valley, and timberline lodges where motorcars idled at the edge of the high country. A grand vista of the Cascades cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the golden age of national park travel. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards