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Pioneering Death - The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (Paperback)
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Pioneering Death - The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (Paperback)
Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
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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.
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