Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story

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The bodies are buried, however the stories don’t seem to be. From the ornate tombs of Milwaukee beer barons to displaced Chippewa graves and miniscule circle of relatives plots, Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story unearths the stories of Wisconsin. Football great John Heisman is buried here, as is the state’s smallest man, a woman whose tombstone names her murderer, and the boy who would not tell a lie and paid the fee.
 
Even in a graveyard, peace proves hard to come back by: Wisconsin’s Native American tribes have fought for undisturbed grounds and proper burial. A patch of Belgian graves now resides beneath a car park whilst the headstones cluster nearby, and the inhabitants of a Bayfield cemetery were unearthed by a raging flood. Every so often the dead are recalled with just a first name, and Every so often no name at all. Following the clues in tips from readers, extraordinary epitaphs, and well-worn stones, Dennis McCann finds the melancholy, the humorous, the tragic, and the universal in Wisconsin’s cities of the dead.

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