Show Mothers O Men Hen Who Won a o t Jl o 0 P 3 4 t I t c ir I z k A s e no PIO B By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Sh She Sh came cam to rock the cradle of a new Adventure calls call to men but duty summon lummon women wom n. n An And 10 so ao when the time wai wa ripe rIp to breed bred new tari Itar t ri for the Rag nag she he he set act forth from Main Malm s I and Ohio and nd an end and her Swedish village and her fjord home to mother the Only Cod and the she know knows the of her giving sl Ing In to the young Northwest She lived In sod nod housea and roofed hay huts hull with the newest neighbor often a days daya trudge away She had no She did not even eun know the luxury of ot floor noor or fireplace Her lIer meal was waa ground In a hand mill and her baking range waa we a makeshift make shift oven In the yard She helped In the al nt he the plowing and the owing sowing and she ahe i helped to scythe the crop and bind bin IS the sheaves She watered stock an and spun and knit knitted led ao and tailored She made a garden and preserved the winter Inter food rood milked her cows COWl and anel nursed her chit dren The al sleepy eyed sun eun found her already at ather ather ather her tasks task and the tb mid moon heard beard her croon the baby to rest reat Her lIer beauty sleep began at t ten n and ended ende at t four Tear rear In an and year out she never had an or or- or orange orange ange a box of or sweets or a gift girt of or remembran nc She fought drought an and dearth and savages savage an and savage lavage loneliness her Sunday bests bellU were calico and limey linsey woolsey She grew old at the rate of or twenty four months month a year at the th grubbing hoe an and the washtub and the churn She bore her baIrn alone alon and burled buried them on the prairies Dut But the she asked uke no pity for tor her broken arches archea her ber aching back beck her poor gnarled hands Or for forthe forthe forthe the wistful memories of ot a fairer youth In sweeter lands She gave save America the great Northwest and wa was wa too proud to quibble at the Ih cost COlt of the stalwart son aona to whom she ah willed It She mothered MENI MEN I wits was the tribute a n not noted 11 writer Herbert I on once e to the Mother the women pioneers of trent great region region region re re- gion comprising Minnesota l and the the empire known us the new Northwest Hut But what he said saido o of the prairie mother was Willi true trul of If all pioneer women who mothers moth ers of ot the frontiersmen ln who lio won n II wilderness whether that wilderness was ns toe the wooded wood ed lands east of ot the Mississippi or the great greot plains and mountains of the trans Mississippi west For the pioneer mother of America was one of the most heroic types of ot motherhood the world has hns ms ever known knOWD and as Mothers Mother's l flay Puy ny approaches this year It U Is Interesting to note nolI America In recent years tins has shown n Its appreciation of ot that fact and has hE been en busy In many places perpetuating ing her memory One of ot the leaders In this movement mo have been hen the of the American Revolution He who began lan l'an some sOllie two years a ago o to murk mark th th National Old Trails route from rom the Atlantic to Ih the Pacific with Uh heroic statues of the women won who followed that trail across arros to country The design n of ot a St. St Louis sculptor A. A Ix known n as the Madonna Ma Ma- In donna of or the Trail was as accepted and twelve e ol of these statues enl ens h n et eat tall Are today standing along the trail trill In the suites states of If Mary Maryland land Pennsylvania West lr Virginia Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Kansas Colorado New IW Mexico Arizona and California In nearly t very rose these statues were unveiled un I on In Mothers Mother's day dIY and special interest teas attached to the ceremonies In California Cali Call fornia one of the women men who In fn them II I Rams Mrs Mt-a- mask Cook Ink who Is shown sho in fn the picture above e an three eighty year old old pioneer mother muther who crossed the Ihl plains In a covered cov tov 0 red erect wagon Two years jears eun ago RO an Oklahoma oil millionaire E. E EoV VI V v. v announced his hili Intention of ut honorIns honor honor- In Ins the pioneer women I who settled on the HIP famous Cherokee sl at strip rip the lust last American un frontier by erecting a 11 monument to them lip lie mi Ih the lendins lend lag ins un sculptors to tl submit model for fur sucha such uch n a Hint twelve phe of Ihl thorn theta responded led The he design n I h by Bryant wis was chosen n lint and It Is from frum Ibis morale shown 11 t that Hint the statue more inure Hum humn forty foet feet In III heleh will be cast ClIst nn and l stand mind on un a 8 knoll near It okla It t vIII lie Ie one m of the most cot 1 heat has hRS been wade made In lit resent recent jears and will wIM l tte e second I oDI only to AA AAs f s sw M e r. r Fi f mS A s ft Si Sir r. r sas oE Mw 1 R i 4 i o oi i l. l 1 e tr the statue of or Liberty in New York harbor In size and majesty The state of ot Kansas Is also planning to honor Its pioneer woman and ond has ol accepted another design design de de- design sign by the same sculptor for tor that purpose purpoRt In January of this tills year one of ot the features of ot the celebration of the sixty eighth birthday of ot Kansas ansas was the dedication of or the tide site on the state slate house grounds In Topeka where this title statue Is to stand The Pioneer Women's M Memorial Association of Kansas which Is sponsoring the movement mo Is raising a II fund of or 2500 for tor this memorial In both tile the Kansas and Oklahoma pioneer mother statues the sc sculptor has bos emphasized the qualities of teacher and worker as ns welt well ns os mother hi tn the women who first came conle to those states and helped make them the time abode of civilization When the town of ot Elmwood Ill commissioned Its Us most famous son eon son Taft Tart to model ar a 8 r which would typify the pioneer spirit the sculptor did portray portroy that Idea with the figure of a n pioneer man Todo Today the statue which stands In the park square of find which was unveiled last year tar shows n a stalwart frontiersman standing gun In hand defiantly braving the dan don v Vy gers which beset n ft wilderness wl breaker Close beside beside be he- side him stands a 1 woman a 8 typical mother moth er shielding In her stron strong young arms her and facing racing with her husband the dangers dangen of time the new Dew land How worth worthy tie the pioneer mother Is of having her memory perpetuated In enduring stone or bronze Is ts forcibly Impressed upon anyone who reads the history o of the American frontier Volumes could be written about time tile pioneer woman alone how she dIll did her share n making a II home for ler ier mate how wh when n It was ns necessary she could Handle the rifle and the ax as to defend that home borne how she braved all the terrors of ot flooded rivers prairie fires snow tilled snow filled mountains hunger thirst und and sickness as she mar marched hed by his side In earning Ing the stu of ot empire westward One Instance of time the westward faring pioneer Is typical It Is the story of the settling of ot Nashville Nash Tenn Tello of ot which a re re- m Ih t I z S t 1 M r E I tID r 3 s x I 4 y t k C j c Ltd s f t t rA A U l S H t LI tj t tr KRY JS r E b ti t 1 t i 4 q I 1 it I w o h. h f L.- L. o f c. K 1 z 7 j THE MADONNA OF THE TRAIL cent writer r has said sula It Is un an Odyssey without parallel In the annals of r Tennessee If tt Indeed It Itcan itcan can cnn be lie malch matched 11 Here liNe Is ts that story II ua as Emerson tells It In his hook book The Way to the West st In 1779 one James Jamell Robertson of the settlements of North Carolina a steadfast man heard certain voices that thai called him to 10 the West James Robertson the steadfast forming his company com com- pany puny for tor this' this uncertain perilous enterprise said We Ve are the advance of a Utilization civilization and our way la is across the continent Simple words words- yet ret that was In 1779 I Now for tor the building of or this one town to the town that Is Ja now the city of or Nashville r and the capital of Tennessee this leader lender had gathered three hun bun dred and eighty persons persona men men women and an children All the women and children one hundred and thirty In number In to charge of a few rew men went by hy boat scow pirogue and canoe ranee In the winter time lime down the bold waters water of It the Holston and Tennes Tennessee ee rivers The rest reEt traveled tra ns III best hel they might over the the five hundred miles of trace trae I Kentucky Of this whole party two hundred and twenty twenty-elx FX got sot through alive The boat party arty had bad many hundreds of miles mites ot of unknown and anil dangerous waters to 10 travel and lh the Journey took them three months a time than It now require requires to travel vel around the world They ran thirty miles mile of or rApIds on the Ibe shoals of the Tennessee pursued sail and fir fired upon by hy Cher Cher- Cherokee okes okee or Of this division of or the th party only ninety ninety- seven aen pot got ot through and e. alite nine of or these were re wounded One was Will drowned one died of or natural causes and was burled and anel the rest were killed by the Indians Indiana Their voyage was WIS Indeed without a 1 parallel In tn modern history Among those who sur sur- the hardship hardship- of the Ihl Journey was II Rachel Donelson later hater the wife Ire of or Andrew Jackson The path of empire In n America the Ih path of corn and venison was a 11 highway that thai never neier ran hack hack- warl ward The These men would never ne leave Ilave this country now that they had taken It Rut what nha a tn was this that the barbaric land demanded of or them In November of 1780 less than a R year after the party arly was organised there were only one hundred and thirty thirty four four person persons left alive l out of or the orl orle- orle Inal moat three hundred and eighty but bul In the settlement settle settle- ment Itself there had not been hen a natural death The Indians killed these settler and ald th Ih the settlers settlors killed the Indians Indiana Death and wounds meant nothing noth- noth Ing ff to 11 15 the adults adult The very verv Infants learned a stoic hardihood od The spring or of 1781 found round only seventy persons persona left len alive Rut Out when the theole vole ole waa was cast whether to ata stay or return not one man voted to give ghe the fight tight ID In that West corn was waa worth one hun bun up UD dred and nd sixty sixty five five dollars a bushel and In Its lIa rat rais ing the rifle was waa aw as essential as the plow Powder r and lead were priceless a Man and woman U lu eth ether er el fearless changeless they held the land Und giving back not one ona Inch or of the west bared d distance they bad gained In 1791 these the were only fifteen pers persons ns left len alite out of or the three hundred and eighty that made this American migration There had been nl only nr ore rl natural death am aming ng them In such a settlement there waa was ni nu su h thing aa as a hero because al all RII were E Each ch man was aa a master or of weapons and Incapable of tear fear No notion action ever pain painted led i a hero like to any anyone one on of or these One man man after hav hay Ing hag been shot ahot and stabbed bed many times waa was scalped a me athe and Ind jested about It II A little girl was wa ed td alive and lived to forget torget It An army of ot Indian India assaulted the settlement sad and fifteen men and thirty l t women beat them elf Mrs Sirs Sally Buchanan BUCnanan a for tor gotten gOllen heroine molded bullets all one night nighton durtt an Indian attack and oa the lb next neat f K on morning birth to a son aon g gave ve This waa was the ancestral liter of or the West What time had folk like tike these for tor powder putt puff pu or rut ruf He fie for tor fan or Jeweled snuff anuff box bua Their iia garb curb are Ha made from the time akin skin of or the deer the fox foa the wolf Their shoes hues were tr ere of ot hid Vida the bed beds were ere made he the robes robe of or the lie I tear ear and buffaro of land under tribute Yet Ho so far tar from They mere laid the was wal the Ih savage ry spirit that the these men bat to In ten years after arter they Mad had first cut OUI away the te fe forest the they wei were ell founding a college and establishing court of or la law w head this establishing a forgotten chapter and 1 a lie tittle one In the history of or the Wet one and then Ihen We West turn lurn If Ir vou you like Uke to the chapters chapler of notion In an older world You bare bava your ch choice ce ot of or |