he photograph above of a bridge abutment under construction would have made Henry Clay smile. One of the tenets of his famous American System, see P. 54, was that the
Moving Along
Death Became Him… Ever So Briefly
As the president’s body was transported across the continent, Americans gathered in cities and towns, on prairies and hilltops, at train depots and along anonymous stretches of track, to say goodbye. Cowboys on the high plains removed their hats as t
