Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print West Virginia — a postcard

West Virginia — a postcard collection cut from coal seams and Allegheny hollows

and the great arcade glinting under gaslight — a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth

Arizona arrives in saturated linen and sun-scorched lithograph — the Grand Canyon's painted strata

Nadaj — a name that surfaces like a misread caption on the back of a tobacco card

John Catron

Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print West Virginia — a postcardExecution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 documents the largest mass execution in American history the scaffold at Mankato rendered in stark documentary engraving, the condemned arranged in a single grim circle as Lincoln's commuted list still left thirty eight to hang. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional