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"This is an utterly amazing
production by a devoted
historian and excellent writer
and should be a model for similar books for other states." Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News
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NEW! Click here to read an excerpt from Linda Wommack's forthcoming book, Our Ladies of the Tenderloin Published by Caxton Press. Due out 2003
FROM THE GRAVE:
A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries
by Linda Wommack
Paperback List Price: $24.95 Click here to buy now
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
READ MORE about this book from the author! - click here
Linda Wommack is a Colorado native who has enjoyed Colorado History since childhood. She is a distant relative of Bob Womack, the man who discovered gold at Cripple Creek. Linda has published several books dealing with the history of the state, including Colorado Gambling: A History of the Early Days, Cripple Creek Tailings and Colorado History for Kids. The latter book was recommended by the National Teachers Association, two years in a row, as the history book of choice for the state of Colorado.
Linda's articles have appeared in The Casino Player, The Tombstone Epitaph, The American Epitaph, True West Magazine, The Gold Prospector, American Western Magazine - ReadTheWest.com, The Colorado Gambler, and Solitude in Stone. She also has written a monthly history column for the Rocky Mountain News.
Linda is a member of the National Mining Association, Colorado Historical Society, National Historic Preservation Committee, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, Western Writers of America, Colorado Cemetery Association, National Association for Cemetery Preservation and the Colorado Genealogical Society.
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