American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half-priest — and the patent

half-priest — and the patent office was where their faith was filed

the others orbiting him like satellites of a defeated star

in one shot

rendered with the devotional precision of a man who believed God geometrized

painted canyons and lodgepole pines pulled from an era when the park was still mostly reached by stagecoach

American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half-priest — and the patentAmerican Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid a maritime portrait of the brig that bloodied a British squadron in Fayal harbor in 1814, and of the captain whose stubborn defense became one of the War of 1812's stranger legends, fought in neutral waters under a moonless Azorean sky. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical