Download or read book Pioneering People and Their Cemetery written by Irma B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Hallowed Ground written by Ian Brown and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes it easy with its compelling collection of stories about the people who are buried at the Yale Pioneer Cemetery, an antique burial ground “at a stopping point between Fort Langley and Fort Kamloops,” BC. Established in 1858, the Yale Cemetery offers final refuge to some 300 souls, many of them among British Columbia’s earliest pioneers, including immigrant railroad labourers who toiled and died building the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways. Here lies Dr. Maximilian Fifer, murdered in 1861 at the hands of a patient who felt the physician has mistreated him; Ned Stout, who, when he died in 1924, included Yale’s 1858 gold rush and the 1880 construction of the CPR among the memories of his 100-year lifetime; and the Elley brothers, three of at least eight children taken by scarlet fever as an epidemic tore through the town in the 1880s. As for the more than 200 unmarked graves in the Yale Cemetery, Hallowed Ground unearths their stories, too. “Yale is the focal point of our realistic and romantic history,” a passerby wrote the Yale and District Historical Society in 1980.
Download or read book What Lies Beneath written by Cynthia Leal Massey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Lone Star State Texas, the second largest state, both in land mass and population, has more than 50,000 cemeteries, graveyards, and burial grounds. As the final resting places of those whose earthly journey has ended, they are also repositories of valuable cultural history. The pioneer cemeteries—those from the 19th century—provide a wealth of information on the people who settled Texas during its years as a Republic (1836-1845), and after it became the 28th state in 1845. In What Lies Beneath: Texas Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards, author Cynthia Leal Massey exhumes the stories of these pioneers, revealing the intriguing truth behind the earliest graveyards in the Lone Star State, including some of its most ancient. This guide also provides descriptions of headstone features and symbols, and demystifies the burial traditions of early Texas pioneers and settlers.
Download or read book Sheffer Pioneer Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches and family trees of the people buried in Sheffer Pioneer Cemetery, Greenwood, Cass County, Nebraska.
Download or read book A Traveler s Guide to Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries of the California Gold Rush written by Susan Morris and published by Judah L. Magnes Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Jefferson County Pennsylvania her pioneers and people 1800 1915 written by W.J. McKnight and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1917 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants written by Thomas Kemp Cartmell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneering Death written by Peter Boag and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.
Download or read book 140th Anniversary of The Gap Pioneer Cemetery 1873 2013 written by Ann Hilder and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 148 page book, "140TH ANNIVERSARY of THE GAP PIONEER CEMETERY (1873 - 2013) - A WALKING TOUR GUIDE AND ANCESTRAL HISTORY OF THE 162 INDIVIDUAL BURIALS IN THE CEMETERY", was researched by members of The Gap Pioneer and History Group Inc. and written by Ann Hilder in 2013 to celebrate the 140th anniversary of this historic cemetery. In addition, the publication has been designed as an ancestral guide for families to pass down to their younger and future generations to preserve their heritage. Section 1. has been designed as a walking tour reference and includes photos of the individual headstones and plaques, and where available, a picture of the person interred. Of the total 162 interments, almost 120 personal photos have been illustrated. The walking tour guide will be of great benefit to the many families who visit the cemetery in search of links to their family heritage. Section2. has an ancestral history included for each of the 162 interments. The research has been carried out by experienced historians availing themselves of the myriad of publicly available data sources available in the 21st century. This section has been indexed and almost 600 different family surnames only, are listed. Included in the relevant family histories are details of the family connections to 120 different immigrant ships (not indexed). At the rear of the book, fifteen pages have been allocated for the inclusion of a pictorial view of the cemetery from the early 20th century to this special 140th anniversary year. General information: Just over one hundred and forty years ago in 1872, Moses Adsett, a generous land owner in The Gap gifted two acres of his land for the establishment of a religious meeting place and a burial ground. The heritage of our Pioneer Cemetery begins with the death and burial of Moses in February 1873. Our cemetery has always reflected its pioneering beginnings as one by one, Moses has been joined by many other pioneering family members whose contributions to this community are still fondly recalled today in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Pioneers written by Jack Schaefer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers searching for courage and adventure will find just that and more in the engaging prose of Jack Schaefer in this vintage collection of Western vignettes. Exploring varied tales of life in the West, Schaefer shares the stories of exceptional characters conflicted with humanity as they navigate the challenges and opportunities that can only be found on the frontier. From the humor in “Cat Nipped” to the common concerns found in “Prudence by Name,” Jack Schaefer again places himself as the authentic voice of the West. Other stories in the collection include “Something Lost,” “Leander Frailey,” “That Mark Horse,” “My Town,” “Harvey Kendall,” “Out of the Past,” “Old Anse,” “Takes a Real Man,” and “Hugo Kertchak, Builder.” Published throughout the early 1950s, these stories have captured our hearts and imaginations as true classics in Western fiction and will continue to do so time and time again.
Download or read book The California Gold Country written by Elliot H. Koeppel and published by Gem Guides Book Company. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of the early prospectors and all the others who made their mark during the Gold Rush. This historical visitor's guide includes recommended routes along Highway 49, dubbed the Mother Lode Highway, and many historical and full-color photos.
Download or read book Pioneers in Paradise written by Sophie Britten and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the hundred-year history of Three Rivers, California, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Three Rivers has always been a special place, one of rolling wooded hills, nestled close to the High Sierra mountains. Those mountains feed the rivers that give the place its name. It was an ideal place for the pioneers of this story to settle. The book is divided into two basic parts. The first tells the story of events and places, what life was like for those hardy souls who homesteaded in these hills. The second part relates stories and histories about individual people and their families: when they came to Three Rivers, when they arrived, and how their lives and the lives of their families were impacted by living here. Did they thrive? Did they go elsewhere to search for their dream? The author has endeavored to answer these questions. Book Review: "I am a local history buff and long-time member of the Tulare County Historical Society. When publications appear that pique my interest in Tulare County History, I usually acquire them. The author and her family are well known and highly respected in the Three Rivers area. Ms. Britten's contribution to the area's history by recording the background and lives of its pioneers is well done." -- Evan Long
Download or read book The pioneers written by Andrew Frederick Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneers of Hell written by Alvin Ray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their sophomore year at highschool, two teen boys conducted a physics experiment for a final grade in physics class. They created a full size replica of the old testament’s “Ark of the Covenant.” Unknowingly, the boys sent a message across the universe. God’s angles intercepted the message and understood it to mean that the earth was finally ready for the “second coming” or the “rapture.” They returned to earth to gather the “faithful” where they collided with earth’s space program on the moon. When the angels received the innocent babies, earth thought it was an alien kidnaping. When they received the innocent children, they suspected they took them for food. When the faithful adults disappeared and the graves of their ancestors were opened, earth concluded that aliens were searching for a specific human DNA chain. The angles were fulfilling one prophecy after another, yet not one soul on earth recognized it as the “rapture.” When it was over, it was a priest, left behind, who made the faithful discovery . . . crying out “Oh my God . . . my God!” “Pioneers of Hell” is a story describing the final days of our earth and the beginning of time in Hell.
Download or read book Pioneers in the Attic written by Sara M. Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail argues that as the Latter-day Saint community globalized in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, its relationship to space transformed. Initially, nineteenth-century Mormons believed that they must literally gather together in their new Salt Lake Zion-their center place. They believed that Zion was a place you could point to on a map, a place you should dwell in to live a righteous life. Later Mormons had to reinterpret these central theological principles as their community spread around the globe. They began to make such claims as "We should spiritually gather together" and "Zion is wherever the people of God are." But to say that they simply spiritualized concepts that had once been understood literally is only one piece of the puzzle. Contemporary Mormons still want to touch and to feel these principles. And so they mark and claim the landscapes of the American West with versions of their history carved in stone. They develop rituals that allow them not only to learn the history of the nineteenth-century journey west, but to engage it with all of their senses. Pioneers in the Attic examines the ways that contemporary Mormons first spiritualized and then reliteralized and concretized several central theological concepts in order to emphasize and make meaningful a center place even as they become an increasingly place-less community"
