Pioneer Cemeteries Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

Name: Pioneer Cemeteries Sculpture Gardens of the Old West
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ISBN: 9780803216082

ISBN-10: 0803216084

ISBN-13: 9780803216082

Edition: 2008

Authors: Annette Stott

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As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the 0;Wild West,1; cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, they 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 0;boot hills1; of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined 0;fair mounts.1; She shows…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.596

Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the westernnbsp;nbsp; Annette Stott is the director of the School of Art and Art History and a professor of art history at the University of Denver. She is the author ofHolland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture.



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Cemeteries


Glossary


Map of Rocky Mountain Region



From Boot Hill to Fair Mount: The Transformation of the Western Cemetery



Tombstone Carvers and Monument Makers of the Rocky Mountain West



M. Rauh, Riverside Marble Works, and the Gendered Cemetery



Mail-Order Monuments and Other Imports: Rocky Mountain Cemeteries in a National Context



The Cemetery in Western Life


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index