Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Green Sod Above, Lie Light, Lie Light": Meeting the Valley Dead -- Chapter 2. "Give This Man His Wings": Imagining Lives and the Afterlife -- Chapter 3. "The Wrong Kind of Creature for This World": Asylum Cemeteries -- Chapter 4. "The Colored Dead": African American Burying Grounds -- Chapter 5. "The Bivouac of the Dead": Military Conflicts and Cemeteries -- Chapter 6. "Don't Forget about Daddy and Me": Reunions of the Quick and the Dead -- Chapter 7. "She Had an Affinity for Snowmen and Roosters": Relational Identities
Chapter 8. "The Grasshopper Not the Ant": The Ludic, Populist Cemetery -- Epilogue: "The Smallest Sprout" -- Appendix: List of Cemeteries -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
