United Mine Workers of America 1899 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the long blue shadow

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation drafted before the ink of the battlefield reports had dried

rendering the brothers as paired saints of a faith driven westward

Idaho Boise rises where the Oregon Trail bent toward the Boise River and the foothills tipped gold in late summer — a capital town of sandstone statehouse

formed the beating heart around which all the stars of the Milky Way revolved

United Mine Workers of America 1899 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the long blue shadowUnited Mine Workers of America 1899. A union document from the coal dust end of the century, when the men who fed America's furnaces organized their grievances into something the operators could no longer ignore solidarity rendered in the formal type of a movement still finding its language. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical