Texas Graveyards

A sixth-generation Texan, the late Terry G. Jordan held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin. His many publications include Texas Log Buildings and German Seed in Texas Soil, both published by the University of Texas Press.

• 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

...throw away your inhibitions, forget the ghost stories, and travel with Terry Jordan through the fascinating world of tombstones and epitaphs, the departed, the remaining, and the odd, revealing ways in which we honor the dead.... Jordan treats his subject with respect in both words and pictures. (Southern Living) ...Jordan's wonderful Texas Graveyards is a tour of Texas history in quite a unique way.... the book is a genuine masterpiece. (El Paso Times)