Burial of De Soto 1876 framed map art the People's Choice for Twelfth

the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race

The year sits squarely in the Cleveland interregnum

A natural fit for home bars

First Regiment Missouri Volunteers

A presidential portrait struck at the height of Old Hickory's second term — the year of the Force Bill

Burial of De Soto 1876 framed map art the People's Choice for TwelfthBurial of De Soto 1876 a Centennial era engraving reaching three centuries backward to the Mississippi's muddy shallows, where the conquistador was lowered into the river he had claimed. The composition belongs to that Reconstruction appetite for founding myths, dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the