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What Lies Beneath : Forgotten Pioneer Cemeteries of California by Gail L. Jenner (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101493048953
ISBN-139781493048953
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038848237
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat Lies Beneath : Forgotten Pioneer Cemeteries of California
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorGail L. Jenner
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-032830
SynopsisWhat Lies Beneath features stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. The author depicts the lives of these pioneers through archival images, essays, and family stories of locations and individuals whose deaths and history have been forgotten-or at least, abandoned. Readers will also learn about Western graveyards, features on headstones, symbols, and burial traditions used by pioneers or early settlers., In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets. In What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards, author Gail L. Jenner exhumes the stories of these pioneers buried beneath the soil, pavement, and rocks, or under the waters of this state. This guide also provides descriptions of headstone features and symbols, and demystifies the burial traditions used by the Native Americans, Spanish, Chinese immigrants, and early California pioneers and settlers., What Lies Beneath features stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. The author depicts the lives of these pioneers through archival images, essays, and family stories of locations and individuals whose deaths and history have been forgotten-or at least, abandoned. Readers will also learn about western graveyards, features on headstones, symbols, and burial traditions used by pioneers or early settlers., What Lies Beneath features stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. The author depicts the lives of these pioneers through archival images, essays, and family stories of locations and individuals whose deaths ......
LC Classification NumberF862.F45 2021
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