borglum's

Updated: May 10, 2025

The Court of Flowers typically Italian Its delightful garden and fountain, "Beauty and the Beast," by Edgar Walter Borglum's fine group, "The Pioneer" The Court of Palms is Grecian in feeling "The End of the Trail," by Fraser, a chapter in American history Murals in the doorways Arthur Mathews' "Triumph of Culture."

Ben Macomber - The Jewel City

The two latter, Solon Borglum's "Pioneer," and James Earl Fraser's "The End of the Trail," belong as much together as the two relatively conventional Spanish conquerors guarding the entrance to the Court of the Universe. The symbolism of the "Pioneer" and "The End of the Trail" is, first of all, a very fine expression of the destinies of two great races so important in our historical development.

Eugen Neuhaus - The Art of the Exposition

Borglum's splendid statuary, this heroic cast of bronze which so faithfully portrays the destiny of a dumb animal, man's most useful and willing slave, always ready to share its master's fate, even unto death to my mind is a most eloquent, if silent, argument against all warfare. But the glory of the monument is its pedestal.

George (Henry George August) Hartmann - Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales

At the Court of Flowers we met Solon Borglum's "Pioneer, too old to be typical, different from the man in lusty middle age or in youth who came to California in the early days. But it justified itself by suggesting perhaps the greatest of the pioneers in old age, one who had grown with the community, the poet, Joaquin Miller.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

The position of these two equestrians is well chosen; the colonnade of the Tower makes an impressive background. The Pioneer Avenue of Palms History of a later period, nearer to the heart of Westerners, is embodied in Solon Borglum's lusty and venerable Pioneer. This impressive equestrian stands on the Avenue of Palms at the entrance to the court of Flowers.

Stella George Stern Perry - The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition : A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition

Towards the church they ride, as fast as they may through the storm. The church stands firm, but the storm careers on over field and moorland, over land and sea. Börglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, hard as he may ride.

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen - What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

The church stands firm, but the storm careers on over field and moorland, over land and sea. Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, however hard he may ride. He journeys with his warriors on the farther side of the bay, in order that he may help Jens Glob, now that the bishop is to be summoned before the judgment seat of the Highest.

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen - Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen