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

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

rendered in the sober line-work of a century that preferred its founders edited into marble

rendered in the sober engraved manner reserved for men whose weapon was the lectern rather than the rifle

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

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