Laramie, Wyoming

Focus on Green Hill Cemetery:  The western cemetery "often began as an unkempt 'boot hill,' reflecting the violent early days of mining camps and cattle towns, and quickly grew into a 'fair mount,' [or 'green hill'!] the western version of a rural cemetery": so sayeth Annette Stott in Pioneer Cemeteries. No longer is Laramie's chief burial ground unkempt, and western themes have often been left behind in favor of contemporary icons (hearts) and secular language: "End of construction. Thank you for your patience." Let's guess what he did for a living. [2013]