The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry

[...]the arguments made are careful and authoritative, grounded in primary sources and placed in regional, national, and transAtlantic contexts. Years of combing legal and church records, gathering folk stories, and networking with genealogists provide the evidence that helps sketch the world the Bigham stonecutters lived and worked in, first on the edge of white settlement and usually on the fringes of a comfortable, secure life.