Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 December 17

= December 17 =

Boot Monument
I've been looking for more information about the actual construction of the Boot Monument at the Saratoga National Historic Park. Is anyone else able to find more information on John Watts de Peyster's role in erecting it or anything like that? Thanks~ ‍ ‍ Relativity ‍  ‍  03:07, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


 * According to The Real Benedict Arnold (p. 235), the sculptor of the Boot Monument may have been George Edwin Bissell who designed some other memorials instigated by de Peyster. Alansplodge (talk) 18:36, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The 1908 biography of de Peyster is viewable on archive.org (apparently self-commissioned so probably not a critical one). Alansplodge (talk) 18:43, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The link above is for Volume I (up to and including the Civil War), Volume II is here, but a quick look at the index fails to find any mention of the monument, although there is a whole chapter on many others that he commissioned, often commemorating his own relatives or his acts of philanthropy. Alansplodge (talk) 19:01, 17 December 2023 (UTC)