Buffalo Hunt in the Wild West 1897 Size:36x24 and the brick canyons of

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

every rivet and bulkhead drawn with the gravity of someone who knew the weight of water overhead

and unflinching

Washington the Patriot

the locomotive buried to its headlamp in drifts that mock the Gilded Age's faith in steel and timetable

Buffalo Hunt in the Wild West 1897 Size:36x24 and the brick canyons ofBuffalo Hunt in the Wild West 1897 arrives at the elegiac end of the slaughter, when the great herds had already been reduced to memory and rumor across the plains. The image carries the documentary weight of a frontier closing in real time riders, rifles, and a quarry the century had nearly erased. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional