Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century Size:24x18 1847 — a campaign lithograph

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

The Outer Reaches a Victorian Meditation on the Ice Giants renders Uranus and Neptune as Leverrier's mathematics first conjured them — pale

1872 — a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox

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

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century Size:24x18 1847 — a campaign lithographBattle of Buena Vista 19th Century a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains, where outnumbered American volunteers held a narrow pass and minted a presidency in the smoke of Manifest Destiny's most consequential campaign. 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