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in which a youthful figure of the Republic grinds the twin serpents of secession and Copperhead dissent beneath his heel

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

his gaunt face rendered with the gravity of a man carrying a sundered Union on his shoulders

A tableau of Vanderbilt ambition

and the postcards know every mile of it — Lookout Mountain panoramas

Heading a Stampede 1888 jefferson wall decor in which a youthful figureHeading a Stampede 1888 a cattle country scene rendered with the urgency of men who had ridden it, horse and rider thrown against a thundering wall of longhorns. The year places it at the tail end of the open range, when the West was still wide enough to run and nearly done being wild. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,