Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art every curve and point drawn

every curve and point drawn with the patience of a man who knew a hook is a small argument between angler and fish

the kind of personal record that surfaces from a republic still cataloguing its returned soldiers and reckoning with the unwelcome maturity the war had pressed upon it

and the document was already passing from law into legend

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 8 belongs to the long pictorial record of the wartime president — the gaunt face that the country watched age in real time

Life of Our Pioneers 1915 framed fencing art every curve and point drawnLife of Our Pioneers 1915 looks backward even as the world tilts forward, a 1915 commemorative tribute to the wagon road generation issued just as American boys were being measured for a different kind of frontier across the Atlantic. The pioneer here is already memory sanctified, archived, and quietly enlisted into the republic's second sober century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library