Main Street Pendleton Oregon Size:24x18 shorthand for an America newly

shorthand for an America newly inclined to project its power across oceans

reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi

Lyon glares from the frame in the months before Wilson's Creek

its tall conical shaft and lantern-room geometry inked with the precision of engineers who knew the 8th District's hurricanes would test every course of masonry they specified

hang above a defeated mantel

Main Street Pendleton Oregon Size:24x18 shorthand for an America newlyMain Street Pendleton Oregon arrives in a wide brimmed bustle of woolen mills and wheat country prosperity storefronts marching beneath painted awnings, Model T's angled along the curb, and ranch hands in from the Umatilla range for the roundup. A cow town capital of saddle leather and stockmen's banks, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early decades of the last century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from