Across the United States and around the world, a popular activity for centuries has been touring historic cemeteries, columbaria, monuments and memorials. In the American West, heritage travelers will discover that walking the hallowed grounds of sites as divergent as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Deadwood, South Dakota's Mt. Moriah Cemetery and Ogallala, Nebraska's Boot Hill Cemetery will reveal the history of the famous and not so famous, the forgotten and the oft remembered of our national and local history. Visitors who tour historic graveyards will discover a poignant reverence to our past that can only be gained from the quiet contemplation of past lives discovered in the short epitaphs of gravestones, memorials and mausoleums.
The fifth edition of the True West Ultimate Historical Travel Guide will now include our guide to historic cemeteries, monuments and memorials. Our lists of suggested sites are in five regions and 22 states. The listings are not comprehensive but are representative of where a traveler should start within each of the regions. Visitors interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones, known as taphophiles, will note the importance of respecting the rules, hours and traditions of the public and private graveyards, monuments, memorials and religious sites to be toured.
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Where Did the Loot Go? - This is one of those find the money stories. And it's one that has attracted treasure hunters for more than 150 years.
Whatever happened to the $97,000 from the Reno Gang's last heist? Up to a dozen members of the Reno Gang stopped a Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis train at a watering station in southern Indiana. The outlaws had prior intelligence about its main load: express car safes held about $97,000 in government bonds and notes. In the process of the job, one of the crew was killed and two others hurt. The gang made a clean getaway with the loot.
Hero of Horsepower - Los Angeles lawman William Hammel tamed one of the West's wildest towns with hard work and horseless carriages.
Los Angeles lawman William Hammel tamed one of the West's wildest towns with hard work and horseless carriages.
From the Basin to the Plains
Discover Wyoming on a road trip to Cody, Casper and Cheyenne.
COLLECTING AMERICAN OUTLAWS
Wilbur Zink has preserved the Younger Gang's history in more ways than one.
Spencer's West
After the Civil War, savvy frontiersmen chose the Spencer repeating carbine.
Firearms With a Storied Past
Rock Island gavels off high profits from historic firearms.
She Means Business!
An energetic and ambitious woman has come to Lincoln, New Mexico, to restore the town's legendary Ellis Store.
Ride that Train!
HERITAGE RAILROADS KEEP THE OLD WEST ALIVE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
Saddle Up with a Western
Old West fiction and nonfiction are the perfect genres to fill your summer reading list.
RENEGADES OF THE RAILS
RAILROADS WERE OPEN SEASON FOR OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY OUTLAW GANGS.