Texas Graveyards : : A Cultural Legacy / / Terry G. Jordan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jordan, Terry G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292757387; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/780446
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Terry G. Jordan.

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.