The Pioneer Woman, (sculpture).

The Pioneer Woman, (sculpture).

Lombardo-Rivera, Juan, sculptor.

The Pioneer Woman, (sculpture).

Dedicated March 24, 1990.

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Sculpture: bronze with blue patina; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. 6 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base; approx. H. 1 ft. 9 in. x W. 4 ft. 8 in.

Standing figure of a frontier woman. She wears a long, plain dress and a large sunbonnet. She holds a baby in her proper left arm and a bucket in her proper right hand. She appears to be walking against the wind.

History -- United States -- Westward Expansion

Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Dress -- Historic -- Pioneer Dress

Object -- Other -- Container

Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Kansas City

State of Missouri, Department of Natural Resources, National Frontier Trails Center, 318 West Pacific, Kansas City, Missouri 64050

Cost of the statue was $35,000. IAS files include excerpts from the book, "The National Frontier Trails Center and its History," complied by JoAnne Chiles Eakin and published by the Friends of the National Frontier Trails Center, 1991. The excerpts include a list of the donors and honorees whose names appear on nearby commemorative plaques.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, Kansas City survey, 1994.

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