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Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America

Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America - Terry Hamburg

Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America

The fabled nineteenth-century migration to the American West was filled with peril and despair. From sailing ship to covered wagon, young ambitious pioneers endured six months of unprecedented, largely unanticipated personal hardship - that is, if they survived the trip. Death was a constant companion and the promised land itself proved as fickle as it was lethal. The Land of the Dead explores how the demands of survival and adaptation during Westward Expansion changed the way we buried our dead and grieved for them in America.

Nowhere did this transformation play out more dynamically than in California, particularly in the quintessential American boom city - gold rush San Francisco, which banned burials at the turn of the twentieth century and then decreed the removal of 150,000 privately owned graves, the only major metropolis to execute a complete eviction of its dead.

The epic cemetery battle began early, when San Francisco was still a remote, wannabe great city, and raged on for over half a century, replete with fiery polemics, political intrigue, nasty legal wrangling, and contested elections. Public cemeteries were dispatched quickly but - as time will reveal - hardly well. Private sanctuaries took longer to expunge, and many of its "residents" were overlooked in what has been called "the greatest mass removal of the dead in human history." How could the unthinkable happen? And how did other early American cities reckon with the now-precious land once dedicated to their dead.

In this well-researched and well-told history, Terry Hamburg explores how an "instant city" heritage bred that momentous decision. Providing a fresh overlay on traditional narratives and revealing a burgeoning nation's trends and conflicts, Land of the Dead examines how we relate to our 'living dead' then and now.

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The fabled nineteenth-century migration to the American West was filled with peril and despair. From sailing ship to covered wagon, young ambitious pioneers endured six months of unprecedented, largely unanticipated personal hardship - that is, if they survived the trip. Death was a constant companion and the promised land itself proved as fickle as it was lethal. The Land of the Dead explores how the demands of survival and adaptation during Westward Expansion changed the way we buried our dead and grieved for them in America.

Nowhere did this transformation play out more dynamically than in California, particularly in the quintessential American boom city - gold rush San Francisco, which banned burials at the turn of the twentieth century and then decreed the removal of 150,000 privately owned graves, the only major metropolis to execute a complete eviction of its dead.

The epic cemetery battle began early, when San Francisco was still a remote, wannabe great city, and raged on for over half a century, replete with fiery polemics, political intrigue, nasty legal wrangling, and contested elections. Public cemeteries were dispatched quickly but - as time will reveal - hardly well. Private sanctuaries took longer to expunge, and many of its "residents" were overlooked in what has been called "the greatest mass removal of the dead in human history." How could the unthinkable happen? And how did other early American cities reckon with the now-precious land once dedicated to their dead.

In this well-researched and well-told history, Terry Hamburg explores how an "instant city" heritage bred that momentous decision. Providing a fresh overlay on traditional narratives and revealing a burgeoning nation's trends and conflicts, Land of the Dead examines how we relate to our 'living dead' then and now.

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