🎨 Charles Marion Russell, Custer's Last Stand (Detail), 1903

“Ours, too, is peculiarly an Agricultural as well as Republican country, & alike in the primitive and manly occupation, or simple institutions of our people, nothing can be more consistent, honorable, impressive and dignified than substantial plainness, independence, frugality and economy. Nothing more strongly and certainly marks the real happiness and independence of a people than a general and simple equality of manner, habits and style of living, as well as of political rights and privileges — where if there be no striking manifestations of wealth & luxury, neither are there any of poverty and misery.”

📜 Mirabeau Lamar, Campaign Address, 1838
🎨 Arthur Starr Niendorff, North Texas, 1936