Texas Graveyards

<p>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. <i>Texas Graveyards</i> 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.</p>