Marking America's Progress in the West
Grace Raymond Hebard’s Domestication of Wyoming, Women’s Rights, and Western Expansion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiffany Lewis (0000-0002-9085-3968) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-57 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708612464645 |
| OpenAlex | W2023077791 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the everyday memory practices Westerners employed to shape the meaning of Wyoming in the early twentieth century. Resisting the 'Wild West' image of the cowboy that was popularized by Western mythmakers from the East, like Owen Wister and Frederic Remington, Grace Raymond Hebard led an effort to mark Wyoming as settled, 'civilized,' and equal to the East. Hebard worked with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Wyoming Oregon Trail Commission (WOTC) to mark the path of the Oregon Trail across the state of Wyoming. Hebard's commemorative discourse domesticated Wyoming's image as she celebrated signifiers of Wyoming's domesticity and drew on the agrarian myth to elevate the settler-who tamed the Wyoming land and built a permanent home-as the Western hero. By commemorating and marking local sites throughout Wyoming, Hebard constructed each marker as a material manifestation of Wyoming's progress, civilization, and mythic significance
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Civilization · Ethnology · Geography · HERO · Literature · Meaning (existential · Mythology · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Classics · History · Philosophy
See America first
Wisdom sits in places
Feminism and geography
The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion
Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles
Autograph of a Nation’
A Feminine Atlas? Sacagewea, the Suffragettes and the Commemorative Landscape in the American West, 1904-1910
Manifest Domesticity
Manliness and Civilization
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |