Going West! : quilts and community
- Title
- Going West! : quilts and community / introduction by Roderick Kiracofe ; with contributions by Sandi Fox.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with D. Giles, Ltd., London, 2007.
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- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations (color); 29 cm
- Summary
- "Often called the great corridor of America's westward expansion, in the nineteenth century the Great Platte River Road carried wagon trains and settlers through Nebraska Territory to points farther west. Starting in the 1840s, three of the major trails to the western United States - the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, and the California Trail - paralleled each other along the river and converged in the valley of the Platte. In jumping-off places such as Omaha and along the Missouri River, settlers from the East Coast as well as immigrants from Europe packed wagons with the essentials for the long journey. And often tucked among the essentials were quilts for bedding, cherished reminders of home and loved ones, stitched with care." "Going West! Quilts and Community, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, presents more than fifty quilts, brought to or made in Nebraska in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Embellished with flowers, stars, wagon wheels, dazzling mosaics, even signatures, the quilts reveal the extraordinary creativity of the individuals who made them. Roderick Kiracofe gives an overview of quiltmaking traditions, while Sandi Fox provides commentaries on individual pieces, using diaries, journal entries, and newspaper accounts to contextualize a quilt's owner or maker, or the period in which the quilt was created. Together, the essays reveal the hardship and risk overlanders undertook to leave the familiar and forge new communities out West, and the apparent joy and pride quiltmakers brought to this time-honored craft."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Accompanies an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., Oct. 5, 2007-Jan. 21, 2008.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.