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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Madonna of the Trail
at the dedication
Friday, October 26, 1928.
Additional Description:
“For in that long ago, with that wonderful gift, which is called intuition, the women of the land said to the men at their firesides, ‘For the children's sake let us journey to the westward.’ So from New England's storm bound coast, from the flower decked south-land, from the sunrise to the sunset gates, the feet of the pioneer woman made the path for civilization to tread. Her courage was the incentive. Over hill and through valley, across the vast prairie stretches she journeyed, and un­conquered by every peril, she reached the haven where she would be and, planted there the sanctuary of home. She it was who ‘brought from out the bosom of the peerless west the younger states.’ She it was who sheltered all the way, the flag that Washington had planted on the ramparts of the Constitution. She it was who added new jewels to the constellation of stars. The Pioneer Mother of the Covered Wagon Days.” — Rose Moss Scott
Submitted: August 5, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p393072
File Size: 1.941 Megabytes

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