Pilot Butte Motor Court Photographer_Artwork Andrew Pickens Butler

Andrew Pickens Butler

The Union general and former Treasury Secretary rendered in the steady gravity of a 19th-century engraving — Dix

each crescent

and anyone drawn to Victorian industrial design

Pilot Butte Motor Court Photographer_Artwork Andrew Pickens ButlerPilot Butte Motor Court arrives in neon edged dusk over Bend's high desert tidy cabins ringed by ponderosa pine, automobiles parked beneath carport awnings, and the cinder cone rising sage brown against a wide eastern Oregon sky. A waystation of the open road, cataloged in linen postcards from the motoring age when Highway 97 promised mountains and mileage in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard