Pioneering death : the violence of boyhood in turn-of-the-century Oregon /
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.