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Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West
As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the “Wild West,” cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries te...more
Hardcover, 404 pages
Published
November 1st 2008
by University of Nebraska Press
(first published January 1st 2008)
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It's rare for me to give a cemetery book such a low rating, but it's rare for a cemetery book to contain so much dry information that even my interest wanes.
I assumed, from the subtitle, that this would be a book about the West. In this case, the west is limited to the Rocky Mountain states. Since I live west of that, I struggled with my disappointment. Also from the subtitle, I assumed this would be a book about cemeteries as "sculpture gardens." While I hoped for an accent on the garden aspect...more
I assumed, from the subtitle, that this would be a book about the West. In this case, the west is limited to the Rocky Mountain states. Since I live west of that, I struggled with my disappointment. Also from the subtitle, I assumed this would be a book about cemeteries as "sculpture gardens." While I hoped for an accent on the garden aspect...more
This review originally appeared in the Graveyard Rabbits online journal
I’ve been known to complain about the interest in American burial themes being far too centered on New England, or even the East Coast more generally. I {may} have to stop now. Annette Stott’s Pioneer Cemeteries; Sculpture Gardens of the Old West goes a long way to filling that gap. This is a book about cemeteries, but more still, it’s a book about the Rocky Mountains, as a cradle of women’s entrepreneurship, as a remote, as...more
I’ve been known to complain about the interest in American burial themes being far too centered on New England, or even the East Coast more generally. I {may} have to stop now. Annette Stott’s Pioneer Cemeteries; Sculpture Gardens of the Old West goes a long way to filling that gap. This is a book about cemeteries, but more still, it’s a book about the Rocky Mountains, as a cradle of women’s entrepreneurship, as a remote, as...more
OK, I didn't read the whole book word for word. A relative wrote it, and since I'm interested in cemeteries I had our library order it. I read the introduction, conclusion, and I hopped skipped and jumped through the middle. It was interesting enough, about the way cemeteries developed in the West, the various ways plots were marked by different groups, and what hopes people had for cemeteries. I just didn't have the time or patience to really study this very complete analysis.
Overall an interesting look at cemetery monuments, in the west, as in who made them, what kinds there were, how motifs and imagery got selected, and how the cemetery of this region is different than the resting places back east.
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