Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree 1876 — a Centennial-year composite

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A scene drawn while the war was still being fought

Burial of De Soto 1876 vintage xmas tree 1876 — a Centennial-year compositeBurial of De Soto 1876 a Centennial era engraving reaching three centuries backward to the Mississippi's muddy shallows, where the conquistador was lowered into the river he had claimed. The composition belongs to that Reconstruction appetite for founding myths, dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the