Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 glorious decade when American clippers

glorious decade when American clippers raced the Horn for Liverpool wool and bragging rights

An engraved tribute to the Scottish-born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander

to save the Union

when an anarchist's bullet at the Pan-American Exposition turned the architect of American empire into its first 20th-century martyr

A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid-career

Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 glorious decade when American clippersDiscovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 a documentary engraving steeped in the heroic mode, casting the Spaniard and his armored retinue at the riverbank as if conquest were a sacrament. The composition treats a contested arrival as revelation, the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of