Administered by City of Phoenix General Services Division 1700 West Washington Phoenix Arizona 85007
Located Wesley Bolin Mall 17th Avenue between Washington & Jefferson Phoenix Arizona
Date:
Dedicated April 21, 1968
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1994.
Image on file.
(On plaque on front of base:) DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS/NO. 344/ERECTED 1968/ARIZONA'S PIONEER WOMEN/BEFORE 1875 HUNDREDS OF HEROIC WOMEN/CAME TO ARIZONA FROM THE EAST AND THE SOUTH. FROM/THIS GROUP CAME ARIZONA'S FIRST SCHOOLTEACHERS/AND THE PUBLISHER OF THE FIRST NEWSPAPER./IN 1876 A GROUP OF PIONEER WOMEN AND THEIR/FAMILIES CAME FROM THE NORTH, FERRIED THEIR/COVERED WAGONS ACROSS THE COLORADO RIVER. WITH/INDOMITABLE BRAVERY AND STRENGTH THEY HELPED/MAKE THE DESERT BLOSSOM INTO A GREEN OASIS./THEIR DESCENDANTS PIONEERED IN MANY SETTLEMENTS THROUGHOUT ARIZONA. THEY DISPLAYED GREAT/COURAGE AND SELF DENIAL WHICH IS THE RICH/HERITAGE OF THEIR POSTERITY./SQUAW PEAK CAMP-PHOENIX, ARIZONA unsigned
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Summary:
Full-length female figure in high relief. She wears pioneer dress with sunhat and long skirts. In her proper right arm she holds an infant; the infant's head rests on her proper right shoulder. The copper relief is mounted on a round cast stone background whose shape resembles the front of a covered wagon.
