Sturdy Pioneers
Author : Ruth Schmidt
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Page : 399 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ohio
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Author : Ruth Schmidt
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Page : 399 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ohio
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Author :
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Michigan
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Author : Minnesota Territorial Pioneers (Organization)
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Minnesota
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Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0806163887
For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.
Author : Simcoe County Pioneer and Historical Society
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Simcoe (Ont. : County)
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Latter Day Saints
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Author : Oregon Pioneer Association. Reunion
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Local history
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Author : Minnesota Territorial Pioneers (Organization)
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1897
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Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Mineral industries
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