Ellen Baumler

Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State (eBook, PDF)

A History of Montana's Cemeteries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496226952
• Artikelnr.: 70885296

Autorenporträt

Ellen Baumler was the interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society from 1992 until her retirement in 2018. She was the author or editor of numerous books, including Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan and Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge. Baumler won Montana’s Governor’s Award for the Humanities and the Peter Yegen Jr. Award from the Montana Association of Museums for excellence and distinction in fostering the advancement of Montana’s museums.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface        
Acknowledgments    
Chapter 1. Death and Burial among the First Montanans    
Chapter 2. Mortuary Customs of the Upper Missouri Tribes    
Chapter 3. Tragedy beyond Description    
Chapter 4. Before There Was Billings    
Chapter 5. Conflict, Misfortune, and Uneasy Transitions    
Chapter 6. Death in Montana’s Early Communities    
Chapter 7. Dead and Buried Twice    
Chapter 8. The Evolution of Beautiful Burial Grounds    
Chapter 9. Cemetery Diversity    
Chapter 10. Homage to the Dead    
Chapter 11. How We Miss Them    
Afterword    
Notes    
Bibliographic Essay    
Index