The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking
history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and
sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial
grounds. Beginning with Montana's first known burial site, Ellen
Baumler considers the archaeological records of early interments in
rock ledges, under cairns, in trees, and on open-air scaffolds.
Contact with Europeans at trading posts and missions brought new
burial practices. Later, crude "boot hills" and pioneer graveyards
evolved into orderly cemeteries. Planned cemeteries became the
hallmark of civilization and the measure of an educated community.
Baumler explores this history, yet untold about Montana. She traces
the pathway from primitive beginnings to park-like, architecturally
planned burial grounds where people could recreate, educate their
children, and honor the dead. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big
Sky State is not a comprehensive listing of the many hundreds of
cemeteries across Montana. Rather it discusses cultural identity
evidenced through burial practices, changing methods of interments
and why those came about, and the evolution of cemeteries as the
"last great necessity" in organized communities. Through examples
and anecdotes, the book examines how we remember those who have
passed on.
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