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Pioneering death : the violence of boyhood in turn-of-the-century Oregon /
"In rural Oregon in 1895, an 18-year-old youth named Loyd Montgomery murdered his parents and a visiting neighbor and was then tried and executed for the crime. Placing these killings within the broader context of the agrarian crisis and the demise of the Oregon pioneer generation, Boag illumin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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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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| Colección: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.