when john stuart curry was painting the prelude, he was commissioned to participate the story of kansasso he started off, coronado was in that participating showing the first days of the person who described kansas. and then the buffalo hunters who are clearing the way for the railroads. so there was progress. the tragic prelude is in the east wing of the building. and then the covered wagons are participated heading west re representing that western expansion unit. we were kind of the last country before people headed out to california. again, the main figure is john brown. he towers about ten feet tall in the painting and surrounded by the north and confederate flag and united states flag. and then theretwo dead soldiers that rest at his feet and represent everyone who died during the silver war. so there's quite a lot of symbolism. there's a gentleman hidden in the background with a top hat, and there's some discussion that might have been ape hack lincoln, but he wouldn't have been president at that time since it was prior to the civil war. it's kind of some foreshadowing in there.