Download or read book Ohio Records and Pioneer Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Pioneer Cemeteries written by Annette Stott and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West. Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the western frontier, from the unkempt ?boot hills? of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined ?fair mounts.? She shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual. Here, widespread participation in a variety of ceremonies brought mountain communities together with a frequency almost unimaginable today. Illustrated with eighty-three striking photographs, this book shows how the pioneer cemetery emerged as a site of public sculpture and cultural transmission in which each carved or molded monument played dual (and sometimes conflicting) public and private roles, recording the community?s history and values while memorializing individuals and events.

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Download or read book Buried Treasures written by Richard Melzer and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.

Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

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Download or read book Gibsons Orrs Pioneer Families written by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendants of Alexander & Elizabeth Votah Gibson and William Orr. Many of the descendants who settled in Fremont County, Iowa, are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available. Also included in the book is documentation of one branch of the William & Keziah Snead Keyser family.

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Download or read book Pioneer Collections Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Together with Reports of County Town and District Pioneer Societies written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Download or read book Pioneer History of Milwaukee From the First American Settlement in 1833 to 1841 with Topographical Description as it Appeared in a State of Nature Illustrated with a Map written by James Smith Buck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.

Download or read book Cyndi s List written by Cyndi Howells and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet.

Download or read book Historical Collections Made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan written by Michigan Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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