Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map when the hero of Little

when the hero of Little Round Top was still fighting — posthumously — to clear his name from the cloud of Five Forks

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map when the hero of LittleHistorical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898. A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory chains, swords, and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late century lodge culture, when American men sought brotherhood in secret orders and stitched their virtues onto banners. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the