Reviews for Soul of the Rockies

The average rating for Soul of the Rockies based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-04 00:00:00 Martha Martz I loved the background history on the largest necropolis in the United States. It gave so much more of a feel for a town that I lived right next door to. It describes the birth of this sleepy little farming town to what became the burial grounds for the closing cemeteries of San Francisco at the turn of the 19th century. Due to San Francisco recognizing that land was valuable and sparse, it passed a bill stating that all cemeteries (except for Presidio, Mission Dolores, and the Columbarium) to be moved out of the City and south. Colma (Fruitland) was the ideal place for this. The photography is stunning. The book isn't an in depth history, but it is packed with a lot of information that is useful and educational. I found that it answered some questions, but gave rise to others that I am now pursuing. In my opinion, a good, well written book should do that,

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-31 00:00:00 Tony Dipalma It was nice to get some tidbits of knowledge I didn't know about Colma. One of the things I learned was that Molloy's wasn't always Molloy's Tavern. I learned about the pig ranching and the Italian families that grew produce and flowers. The photograph's were excellent. I even found a picture of a building that I remembered when I was growing up in Daly City in the 1960's. I had always thought it looked like a haunted house, but it turns out it was an old hotel. Now I know. Although I think Michael needed to research the number of dead that were actually left in the former cemeteries in San Francisco. He said that few were left behind in the exhumations and re-internments and that isn't at all true when you read the archeological reports from the recent Legion of Art restoration in the 1990's. Lincoln Park still retains a lot of the Golden Gate Cemetery (aka City Cemetery) dead...not to mention those that are still scatter throughout the entire city of San Francisco. Other than that, great read!