Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Drinkers Companion Patent No

The Drinkers Companion Patent No

Mount Hood floating snow-bright on the horizon

Grand Salute at Vera Cruz - American Fleet and Castle San Juan - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph of cannon-smoke diplomacy in the Gulf

their portraits arranged like a roll call of survivors twenty years past Appomattox

drawn three decades on by a country still negotiating with its dead

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Drinkers Companion Patent NoDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,