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and in tw i
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Springfield, Ohio; Richmond, In
lll.; Lexington, Mo, ; r
mar, Colo.; Albuquerque, N. M.;
Ariz, and Upland, Calif.—~he
statues upon each of which is this inseription
“The Madonna of the Trail. N. 8. D. A. R. Mea
morial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered
Wagon Days.”
eve
Vandalia,
we, Kan.; La-
Springerville,
could be shown
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Nor would this chain of memorials which link
the Atlantic and the Pacific be the only mong
ments, erected to perpetuate the memory of the
women who followed the star by destiny west.
ward, which he shown. For recent
years have seen an increasing number of in-
dividuals and patriotic organizations giving
evidence of a determination to pay a tribute to
the pioneer mothers of thelr communities or
their states In some enduring form,
The earliest of these was the statue of “The
Pligrim Mother,” the work of the distinguished
American sculptor, Paul W. Bartlett, which was
erected in Provincetown, Mass, in connection
with the Pilgrim Tercentenary celebration In
1020. This same mother was also honored In
the Pligrim Memorial fountain at Plymouth,
Mass, authorized by the Natlonal Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution in
1020 but not actually dedicated until 1025, Just
as it was appropriate that the first memorial
to a ploneer mother should be erected on the
Atlantle coast, so it is appropriate that the
latest one in 1928, should have béen erected on
the Pacifie coast--in Vancouver, Wash,
In between, In both time and location, have
been erected statues of the ploneer mother her-
self or statuary groups of a ploneer family in
Worcester, Mass. ; In Elmwood, IIL; in Topeka,
Kan; in Kansas City, Mo.; near Ponea City,
Okla; In Wichita, Kan.; on the campus of the
University of Oregon at Kugene; and there are
under way projects for similar memorials In
other cities and states,
In several eases there has been some dispute
a8 to the appropriateness of the delineation of
the Ploneer mother by some of the sculptors
ed to execute the memorials, Dis
could be
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on. When the exhibit was
+ brought from Lee Tay-
y torial writer on the Rocky
Mountal } WS, he following eloquent tribute
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to the oct of these models:
The Pioneer American Woman! Not
woman ; the composite of many women it must
be, Not on } ir historic heroines, but an
Ideal we not idealized away from her
environment, would pever do; and it must
not be for the sake of pleasing
the purely fastidious,
Think of Ploneer
Conjure her in the brain; but first of ali con-
sider what confronted her. Go back and learn
of her antecedents and what the yearg must
have hammered into her soul and
strengthen her body, She had been prepared
in a hard school: not hardened or coarsened,
but tempered, to bend and not to break,
One thing to be remembered in making the
final selection: She had a Spirit Sense,
must have had in her the soul of a martyr.
The Pioneer American Woman did not come
solely for her gain. Always she was buoyed
in her heart by the thought that she was in
the service of a Higher Power, working in the
Lord's vineyard-—a bleak enough one ag it
turned out to be, She had the homesteading
instinct and this need not be overlooked; de-
gire for a home of her own and freedom, She
was looking ahead, generations ahead, as
what ploneer woman in her innermost soul
does not, to sustain her? She must have had
that far vision ingrained within her which Is
not given to the male; she envisaged herself
in the future of the race that was to spring
from her. The Pioneer Woman was not a
motherless woman,
The Ploneer Woman of the West was the
Daughter of the Ploneer Woman in America,
dowered with the latter's courage, fortitude
and resourcefulness, She was born to endure
hardships; she was not afraid of the wide
waste spaces and her intuition was to better
those that came after as much as herself, She,
too, had a perspective, a maternal perspec
tive, If you please,
The models produced by the sculptors are
varied and should give pleasure among them
to a great number, Hardly needful to state,
they are works of art beyond question from
the salon and artistic points of view because
the artists chosen are already famous, One
model is delightful to look at in the photo.
graph, but it Is not a model of the Ploneer
American Woman most Americans will have in
thelr mind's eyes. A Puritan? An idealized
one
that
attempted
that American Woman!
done to
She
winter,
beasts, afte
come the ha
they settled
with a faith
ance of God
hour of need,
Through hunger amd starvation, through
sickness and death pict faceted the toll of
half their number, on and endured,
looking only towar hie onl of their high
calling in Christ Jesus
We hear far more
thers than we do abou
While in no way
rightful glory of
it ia time that the
that these women playe in ation. It
is time that history took note of them,
if ever, are they mentioned by name,
in the genealogies, or by specialistg in I'l
grim history. Their names, with few excep
tions, are not household words In our tongues,
like those of Miles Standish, or Willlam
Bradford and the rest. They figure only in
the passehger list of the Mayflower andl only
as “Mary” or “Katherine,” ete, wife of So
and So. The family names of but few are
given, The names of some are literally un-
known, not even the baptismal name being
recorded. These latter figure solely as the
wives of the Mathers, without further identi.
fleation.
We may read the tragic list for ourselves,
The wife of John Tilly—who was she? By
what name was she called in those terrific
years of sorrow and suffering? The maldsery.
ant of the Carvers—who wag she? What faith.
fulness and courage must have been hers to
follow her master and mistress into such an
adventure. Yet her name Is lost and her
fdentity sunk in oblivion,
We have Inscribed on our fountain all the
names that are known; we have cut them into
deathless stone, that all coming generations
may read and remember. And we have so
indicated the nameless that they may share
every
the Pilgrim Fa
Pilgrim Mothers
detract from the
iwerg, nevertheless,
realized the part
civiliz
tarely,
encom
diers of a future nation, we salute youl
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