Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Battle of the Thames

Battle of the Thames

it reads as a republic taking inventory of itself before the century turned grim

It is the Victorian mind at its most reverent — measuring the firmament with calipers

with bunting and oratory

and the wave-cut cliffs of Block Island stamped onto linen and lithograph

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 smiths astronomy Battle of the ThamesDaniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 a Centennial era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch, rifle leveled at the cabin door, the frontier myth hardening into household scripture just as the actual frontier was being closed by rail and treaty. 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