Kansas cemeteries in history
By: edited by Albert N. Hamscher.
Contributors: Hamscher, Albert N.; Moore, Jerry D.; Ambler, Cathy.; Volkman, Nancy, 1949-; Hamscher, Albert N.
Publisher: KS Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Manhattan, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Cemeteries -- Kansas -- History.; Cemeteries -- Landscape architecture -- Kansas.; Burial -- Social aspects -- Kansas.; Death -- Social aspects -- Kansas.; Kansas -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-115).
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Albert N. Hamscher; title: Cherished are the dead : changing social dimensions in a Kansas cemetery -- Jerry Moore, Cynthia Blaker, and Grant Smith -- (reprinted from Plains Anthropologist : journal of the Plains Anthropological Society: 36, Feb. 1991: 67-78); title: A place not entirely of sadness and gloom : Oak Hill Cemetery and the rural cemetery movement -- Cathy Ambler -- (reprinted from Kansas History: 15, Winter 1992-93: 240-53); title: Landscape architecture on the prairie : the work of H.W.S. Cleveland -- Nancy J. Volkman -- (reprinted from Kansas History: 10, Summer 1987: 87-110); title: "Scant excuse for the headstone" : the memorial-park cemetery in Kansas-- Albert N. Hamscher-- (reprinted from Kansas History: 25, Summer 2002: 124-143).