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and lantern-room rib drawn by a hand that understood hurricanes far better than it understood mercy

but a five-cent slab of bubblegum sweetness slipped into a waxed paper sleeve

Elected President When Fifty One — a paired portrait study tracing the rail-splitter's three decades from frontier youth to the man who would inherit a fracturing Union

rendered a quarter-century later in the careful hand of memory

"US Patent No. 21533 Target and Target Stand by W.H. Wright & G.L. Thorne (May 6 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and lantern-room rib drawn byUs Patent No. 21533 Target and Target Stand by Wh Wright Gl Thorne (may 6 1879) Wright and Thorne's 1879 filing arrives from the heyday of American parlor archery and rifle clubs, when a target was less a paper bullseye than a freestanding apparatus bullseye, easel, and counterweight rendered in the patient ink of a draftsman who understood that a shot deserves something solid to meet it. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from