The Great Race Up Salt River

$4,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: Published & Lith. by Willis & Probst, 1844 . Lithograph, 10.75” x 17.25” plus title and margins. A captivating and very rare satire of the presidential campaign of 1844, employing the popular metaphor of “Up Salt River” to denote political peril or defeat.Whig nominee Henry Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, in their boat Tariff, lead the other candidates in the race up

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