Pioneering death the violence of boyhood in turn-of-the-century Oregon Boag, Peter creator author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. wau 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource ( xii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps. Prologue. "A scene of wholesale butchery": a document of rural ethnology -- Part I. "Aided by boys upon horseback, who carried lanterns": boyhood in rural Oregon -- "The hope and life of the nation": boys and families on the republican landscape -- "A child, sick with scarlet fever": the traumas and violences of rural childhood -- "Spare the rod and spoil the child": the bad boy problem and the Montgomery parricide -- Part II. "One by one they are dropping like the autumn leaves": agricultural decline, dying pioneers, and parricide -- "The pinching economies of life": the agrarian crisis and the murder of parents -- "His people being pioneers": parricide in an age of death and an era that celebrated killing -- Part III. "We're going to hang him right here, on this tree": killing Loyd Montgomery -- "The scaffold is all framed and ready to be put in place": executing a boy on an altar of global capitalism -- "At 14 1/2 minutes his heart ceased to beat": a boy's life from 4:30 p.m., November 19, 1895, to 7:26 a.m. January 31, 1896 -- Epilogue. "The case of Loyd Montgomery does not end with his death": burying a boy and digging up the past. Peter Boag. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-or Montgomery, Loyd 1877-1896 Parricide Oregon History 19th century Case studies Boys Oregon History 19th century Oregon Rural conditions 19th century HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) Parricide Rural conditions Oregon 1800-1899 fast HV6542 .B63 2022 364.152/30979509034 Pioneering death Boag, Peter. Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2022] (DLC) 2021032009 Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography 9780295749990 0295749997 9780295749983 9780295750637 2021032010 22573/ctv2jmccvm JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2jn92kn DLC 210714 20220524155003.1 in00004582579 eng