Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 winter sleigh parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over

parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over the Atlantic

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

Hand-framed in the Pacific Northwest

where cast-iron facades and gaslit marquees crowded a thoroughfare since rewritten by demolition crews

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 winter sleigh parachute jumpers caught mid-descent overZachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista, when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier statesman destiny seemed to demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,