Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 mobile point art the converted Civil War steamer

the converted Civil War steamer reborn under Pacific Mail colors and crowned

Robert Cumming Schenck

The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge Lighthouse reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the Atlantic itself — every dovetailed granite course of the Cohasset tower charted against the ledge that swallowed its iron predecessor in 1851

the year an assassin's bullet at a Washington depot forced the republic to count its dead chief executives a second time

the Senate

Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 mobile point art the converted Civil War steamerFlight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Santa Anna's retreat from Taylor's outnumbered ranks in the Coahuila highlands, drawn with the swagger of a republic certain that Manifest Destiny had just been ratified at gunpoint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,