Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed ink and blood meeting on

ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April

his ministers gathered around a table where ink

rendered in the sober engraved manner reserved for men whose weapon was the lectern rather than the rifle

Charging the Guns 1891 — a late-century military scene rendered in the muscular vocabulary of post-war remembrance

Custer's Last Charge 1876 fdr portrait framed ink and blood meeting onCuster's Last Charge 1876 a lithograph rendering of the Little Bighorn made in the gilded language of martyrdom, sabers raised against a closing circle of Lakota and Cheyenne riders. The image arrived in American parlors as elegy and alibi at once, the frontier's reckoning dressed up as cavalry romance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional