General Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A centennial print summoning the

A centennial print summoning the morning the last redcoats withdrew from Manhattan and Washington rode down through a city finally his own — remembrance rendered a hundred years on

and the orderly choreography of constitutional succession

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

a chromolithograph already rehearsing the republic's centennial pageant — a hundred years measured in rails

General Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A centennial print summoning theGeneral Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 a campaign portrait minted in the smoke of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, when Old Rough and Ready's victories along the Rio Grande were already being engraved into a presidency Manifest Destiny had not yet finished arguing for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and