TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Terry G.
TI  - Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy 
T2  - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series
SN  - 9780292757387
U1  - 976.4 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Cemeteries - Texas
KW  - Cemeteries
KW  - Texas
KW  - Sepulchral monuments
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. The Truth about Cemeteries --; 2. The Southern Folk Cemetery in Texas --; 3. Traditional Southern Grave Markers --; 4. The Mexican Graveyard in Texas --; 5. The Texas German Graveyard --; 6. A Legacy Squandered --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Map of Texas Counties; restricted access
N2  - Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/780446
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292757387
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292757387/original
ER  -