Vista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon Size:24x18 Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century

Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century — the Union general who held Pea Ridge and pushed the war into the trans-Mississippi

The Peace Ball at Fredericksburg

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and the river curling silver toward distant hills

Battle of Buena Vista

Vista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon Size:24x18 Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th CenturyVista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in octagonal stone perched high on Crown Point, its rotunda windows surveying the gorge where basalt cliffs plunge toward the river's silver bend. Built to crown the great scenic highway, it stands sentinel over winding switchbacks and Douglas fir a marble jewel of the auto touring age, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the 1920s and '30s. About the Source Bella Frye curates