Pioneering Death - The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (Paperback)

On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Peter G. Boag
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	314
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-75063-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Promotions
LSN:	0-295-75063-4
Barcode:	9780295750637

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