Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-0-87020-485-2 | Paper: 978-0-87020-451-7
Library of Congress Classification F582.M395 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 929.5
eISBN: 978-0-87020-485-2 | Paper: 978-0-87020-451-7
Library of Congress Classification F582.M395 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 929.5
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The bodies are buried, but the stories are not. From the ornate tombs of Milwaukee beer barons to displaced Chippewa graves and miniscule family plots, Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story unearths the stories of Wisconsin. Football great John Heisman is buried here, as is the state's smallest man, a woman whose tombstone names her murderer, and the boy who would not tell a lie and paid the price.
Even in a graveyard, peace proves hard to come by: Wisconsin's Native American tribes have fought for undisturbed grounds and proper burial. A patch of Belgian graves now resides beneath a parking lot while the headstones cluster nearby, and the inhabitants of a Bayfield cemetery were unearthed by a raging flood. Sometimes the dead are recalled with only a first name, and sometimes no name at all. Following the clues in tips from readers, unusual epitaphs, and well-worn stones, Dennis McCann finds the melancholy, the humorous, the tragic, and the universal in Wisconsin's cities of the dead.
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