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Pioneer Cemeteries - Sculpture Gardens of the Old West (Hardcover)
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Pioneer Cemeteries - Sculpture Gardens of the Old West (Hardcover)
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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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