Life and Death on the Prairie

by Stephen Longmire

Iowa's Rochester Cemetery is one of the most unusual and biodiverse prairies left in America, boasting more than 400 species of plants--337 of them native to the region--on its thirteen-and-a-half acres. Among them are fifteen massive white oaks that stood watch as the surrounding landscape was converted into farmland after Euro-American settlers arrived in the 1830s. The cemetery is the last resting place of these pioneers and their descendants,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098349780X
• ISBN13: 9780983497806
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: George F. Thompson Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.7" x 9.3"