[PDF] Tales The Tombstones Tell eBook

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076275186X

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Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the story behind Calamity Jane's wish to be buried next to Wild Bill Hickok, discover how and where the Earp brothers came to be buried, and visit the sites of tombs long forgotten while legends have lived on.

Author : June Hadden Hobbs
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476644284

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This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.

Author : June Hadden Hobbs
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476686386

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This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.

Author : Lawrence Lederman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780374278458

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In Wall Street lingo, tombstones are the black-bordered newspaper notices of corporate mergers. Lederman, who created the recapitalization technique while a partner at Wachtell Lipton, presents richly detailed stories from the takeover wars of the 1980's, informed by his intimate knowledge of the strategies and personalities involved.

Author : Henry King
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Epitaphs
ISBN : 9780962425523

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Prowling the graveyards, these are unusual epitaphs and tombstones and the fascinating stories behind them.