America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum and the silvering park converge

and the silvering park converge in one long Manhattan exhale

almost against orders

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

and the unconditional surrender that first made Grant a name the Union could pronounce with hope

America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum and the silvering park convergeAmerica's Famous Jockeys 1955 gathers the small, sinewy men who made the American turf silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals, each rider catalogued like a thoroughbred in his own right. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &