Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 — a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post-war republic

ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

A posthumous engraving of the first president

Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed Design of Bronze Monument CommemorativeCuster's Last Charge 1876 a lithograph rendering of the Little Bighorn made in the gilded language of martyrdom, sabers raised against a closing circle of Lakota and Cheyenne riders. The image arrived in American parlors as elegy and alibi at once, the frontier's reckoning dressed up as cavalry romance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional