7 minPioneer Survival Guides in the 1800sThe mortality rate of westering pioneers was very high. Perhaps the greatest cause of death was pioneers not knowing the basics of survival.
5 min1800's Human Hair Funeral Art As early as the 1400s in Europe, creating hair art to memorialize the dead began, especially because epidemic and plagues took a high toll.
7 minDeath Photography In the 1800s, Victorians were intimately acquainted with death. The Civil War, the bloodiest war in America's history, touched every family.
6 minIn Praise of the Working Man & WomanThe cogs of the Industrial Revolution loomed grinding and monstrous over the individual worker and killed workers at spectacular rate.
3 minPioneer CemeteriesToday, all of us know of pioneer graveyards. They are lonely plots overgrown on random roadsides, with crumbling gravestones.