Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print drawn in the hand of

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

The National Gallery of Eminent Americans

Arizona arrives in saturated linen and sun-scorched lithograph — the Grand Canyon's painted strata

West Virginia — a postcard collection cut from coal seams and Allegheny hollows

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print drawn in the hand ofExecution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 documents the largest mass execution in American history the scaffold at Mankato rendered in stark documentary engraving, the condemned arranged in a single grim circle as Lincoln's commuted list still left thirty eight to hang. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional