From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries (Paperback)

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This book takes the reader through many of the best known and more obscure cemeteries in Colorado. A handy index and an impressive bibliography round out this comprehensive research tool. Linda Wommack has given serious history buffs a nice book for our research libraries, and for those who only dabble, there are still enough real people profiles to make From the Grave a good investment. -- Jan Holden for True West Magazine

Product Description

The only comprehensive roadside tour guide to Colorado's oldest cemeteries and the history buried there. This 500-page work includes: -Nearly four hundred Colorado cemeteries -More than 1,000 mini-biographies of interred pioneers -Easy to follow road directions and cemetery guides -Regional maps by chapter -History of the areas and communities -Clever epitaphs -How to do your own gravestone rubbings

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Product Details

• Paperback: 477 pages
• Publisher: Caxton Press (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870043862
• ISBN-13: 978-0870043864
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,073,380 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best over-all comprehensive cemetery guide in all 50 states, March 9, 1999

By A Customer

Never before has a book been so complete and the subject researched more thourghly, than Wommack's From The Grave. Three years of research has produced information for more than 350 cemeteries and mini-biographies of over a thousand pioneers interred in Colorado's cemeteries. Cemetery information, maps, directions, all round out this wonder book. A must read for the historian and genealogist. Humorous epitaphs and ghost stories are an added treat.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Research, January 25, 2001

By A Customer

The amount of research that went into this book is absolutely incredible. I am native to Colorado and have lived here most of my life. I am so glad to see that someone finally took an interest in the peaple who made this state what it is. Besides the fact that it is so easy to read. One Great Book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good source, September 9, 2005

By	Bryan L. Jones "Bryan Jones" (McCook, NE) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Wommack's book represents a daunting amount of research and should become a standard reference work for geneologists and historians.