Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map Patrick's twin towers in the

Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate — pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky

finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks

and the seven-mile stretch of sand that drew Montrealers down by overnight train

rendered at the dawn of his Oregon crusade — a portrait steeped in the chamber's expansionist fever

The Publicans Mechanism — Patent Drawing for the Perfect Pour is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map Patrick's twin towers in theDeath of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its prominent dead and Illinois sent home a name carved in heavier ink than most. 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