Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Verdigris Frame narrating the Ohio canal boy's

narrating the Ohio canal boy's ascent to the White House in panels arranged like stations of a civic passion play

the camera fixing what the army would otherwise have lost to legend

all gilded by the century's restless faith that the horizon owed something to those who reached it

and the slow-burning quarrel over the West

Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Verdigris Frame narrating the Ohio canal boy'sBattle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May a documentary engraving of the Mexican War's second day, all sabers and dragoon thunder along the chaparral, the moment Captain May's charge handed Manifest Destiny a Mexican general as proof. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,