America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum Booth mid-leap toward a stage

Booth mid-leap toward a stage that would never close

engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall

the year of Buena Vista

The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 reissues Jefferson's founding text at the precise moment the Union began to fracture

Battle of Chickamauga

America's Famous Jockeys 1955 era-antebellum Booth mid-leap toward a stageAmerica's Famous Jockeys 1955 gathers the small, sinewy men who made the American turf silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals, each rider catalogued like a thoroughbred in his own right. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &