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| | PIONEER WOMAN STATUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Executed in 1929 by English-born sculptor Bryant Baker (1881-70), the Pioneer Woman Statue is located at 14th and Highland, adjacent to the Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City. |
 | | According to its dedicatory plaque, Pioneer Woman was created "in appreciation of the heroic character of the women who braved the dangers and endured the hardships incident to the daily life of the pioneer and homesteader in this country." The twelve-thousand-pound, seventeen-foot-tall, cast-bronze statue stands atop a pyramidal, silver dale-stone base. |
 | | More than 750,000 votes were cast, and Bryant Baker's model, titled "Confidence," won the commission and a $100,000 prize (MacNeil's entry scored second place). |
| www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/pioneerwom.htm (396 words) |
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