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Death and Oregon's Settler Generation: Connecting Parricide, Agricultural Decline, and Dying Pioneers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Peter Boag

Oregon historical quarterly, 2014-09, Vol.115 (3), p.344-379 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Death and Oregon's Settler Generation: Connecting Parricide, Agricultural Decline, and Dying Pioneers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Autor: Peter Boag
Assuntos: Celebrations ; Daughters ; Death ; Economic depressions ; Farm economics ; Libraries ; Murder ; Obituaries ; Parricide ; Sons
É parte de: Oregon historical quarterly, 2014-09, Vol.115 (3), p.344-379
Descrição: Loyd Montgomery murdered his parents and a visiting neighbor in 1895 during a rural depression that greatly impacted Linn County's local economy and marked a shift from agrarian ways of life. The Montgomerys belonged to a branch of the region's most notable pioneers, and their death coincided with the reality that a generation of early Oregon pioneers that was quickly passing. Memorializing pioneers became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century, with statewide and local organizations hosting annual reunions that focused on celebrating hardship overcome by perseverance. In this article, Boag “connects parricide, depression, and celebration,” with the common theme of death “in a triangulation of cause, effect, and remembrance that provided meaning to how a large number of Oregonians experienced the complicated transition to the twentieth century.”
Editor: Oregon Historical Quarterly
Idioma: Inglês

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