Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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A similar function of identification is often achieved through the visual depiction of one or more items of personal clothing or equipment instantly recognizable to those in the know as being symbolically representative of logging and ...
A similar function of identification is often achieved through the visual depiction of one or more items of personal clothing or equipment instantly recognizable to those in the know as being symbolically representative of logging and ...
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One such specialization , for the most part obsolete in modern logging operations , was that of poler or " white water man . " These athletic daredevils ( whose function with regard to the massive log drives of the past was not ...
One such specialization , for the most part obsolete in modern logging operations , was that of poler or " white water man . " These athletic daredevils ( whose function with regard to the massive log drives of the past was not ...
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For an in - depth journalistic treatment of this troubling phenomenon see “ Logging : Ore . gon's Deadly Career , ” Salem Statesman.Journal ( April 26 , 1987 ) , pp . 16 , 7G , 8G , 9G , 10G . An interesting historical analysis is found ...
For an in - depth journalistic treatment of this troubling phenomenon see “ Logging : Ore . gon's Deadly Career , ” Salem Statesman.Journal ( April 26 , 1987 ) , pp . 16 , 7G , 8G , 9G , 10G . An interesting historical analysis is found ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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