Horsetail Falls 205 Feet Columbia River Highway Oregon midtown wall art the victor of Appomattox photographed

the victor of Appomattox photographed as a private man stepping into civic life

as if cartography could discipline what the war could not

before the trophy bore his name

where Winfield Scott's flanking maneuver around Santa Anna's batteries opened the road to Mexico City and rehearsed

and rebellion" misstep

Horsetail Falls 205 Feet Columbia River Highway Oregon midtown wall art the victor of Appomattox photographedHorsetail Falls 205 Feet Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in a single white plume dropping sheer from basalt cliffs into a fern shadowed pool, roadside firs leaning close as touring cars trace the gorge's hand cut curves. This was the wonder road of 1915, its waterfalls and viaducts captured for travelers in linen and real photo postcards from the motoring age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden