Sons Of Columbia

"The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together." 📜 George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 📍Washington, DC

📍Big Bend National Park, Texas

📍Lansing, Michigan

🎨 Anna Hyatt Huntington, Red Deer, 1929

"After what seemed an interminable time, the ashes of a fire lately extinguished were discovered; then farther on a dog barked, and finally the long-looked-for Indian village was discovered by the cry of a baby. General Custer in his accounts stops to say how keen were his regrets, even with the memory fresh in mind of the atrocities committed by Indians, where white infants' brains had been dashed out to stop their crying, that war must be brought to the fireside of even a savage." 📜 Following The Guidon, Elizabeth B. Custer, 1890 🎨 Charles Stewart Stobie, Shoshone Hunting Camp, 1903

📍Big Bend National Park, Texas

"There would be few hunters if women had to be the Nimrods. I suppose in a world where women reigned there would be little question that, unwilling to kill anything, in time she would be crowded out by the animal kingdom. But the buffalos were singularly pitiful prey to me. They fought terribly when brought to bay, but when simply startled by the enemy, they ambled off as if saying 'See here, this place is surely big enough for all of us; we'll get out of the way,'" 📜 Elizabeth B. Custer, Following The Guidon, 1890 🎨 Henry H. Cross, The Victor, 1878

📍Washington, DC

📍Kerr County, Texas

"Happy the showers that fall on so fair a wilderness,—scarce a single drop can fail to find a beautiful spot,—on the tops of the peaks, on the shining glacier pavements, on the great smooth domes, on forests and gardens and brushy moraines, plashing, glinting, pattering, laving." 📜 John Muir, My First Summer in The Sierra, 1869 📍Yosemite National Park, California

"But to the ordinary unkempt American of that epoch England had become merely an abstraction which materialized, on occasion, in the shape of a British hunting knife or a suit of Lancashire wollen goods. These uninspiring symbols of overlordship gave place now and then to a glimpse of some entirely human governor, royally appointed. He would arrive in the pomp of an authority which had acquired the pallid features of a half-veiled political mysticism." 📜 W. E. Woodward, Washington: The Image and The Man, 1926 🎨 Gilbert Stuart, The Right Honorable John Foster, 1790

📍Lansing, Michigan

⛰ Fauna of Columbia 🇺🇸 Elk (Cervus canadensis) It's bugle being almost a defining characteristic of the mountains and valleys of the western United States through September and October, the elk is a majestic member of the deer family, once ubiquitous across almost all of North America. Four subspecies of elk currently inhabit North America: the Tule elk, Roosevelt elk, Rocky Mountain elk, and the Manitoban elk. However, the Eastern elk went extinct in the late 19th century due to over-hunting. Efforts to reintroduce elk to the eastern United States began in the late 1990's, and populations of Manitoban elk and Rocky Mountain elk were used to establish a now stable and growing population in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. "Near by the call of the bulls in the rutting season—their 'whistling,' as the frontiersmen term it—sounds harsh and grating; but heard in the depths of their own mountain fastnesses, ringing through the frosty night, and echoing across the ravines and under the silent archways of the pines, it has a grand, musical beauty of its own that makes it, to me, one of the most attractive sounds in nature." 📜 Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail 📍Girdwood, Alaska

🎨 Charles Schreyvogel, The Summit Springs Rescue, 1908

📍Salt Lake City, Utah

📍Wind River Mountains, Wyoming

📍Troy, Michigan

"They passed the dismantled, deserted home of many a venturesome frontiersman; they saw the burned stage stations; they met in forts or small settlements placed in a safe position ranchmen whose wives had been killed, or, worse still, made captives; they came upon the mutilated and horribly disfigured bodies of Lieutenant Kidder and eleven soldiers; everywhere on all its marches the regiment followed the trail of the Indian on his frightful career of rapine, murder, and outrage." 📜 Elizabeth B. Custer, Following The Guidon, 1890 🎨 Edgar Samuel Paxson, Custer's Last Stand, 1899

📍North Texas

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