This book does not claim to be a complete history of Fairmount Cemetery. Rather, it chronicles the trials and tribulations of establishing a place of beauty in a treeless and arid land. To place Fairmount in its proper historical context, a brief history of the origins of earlier cemeteries, principally Mount Prospect, Acacia, the City Cemetery, the Hebrew Cemetery and Riverside is . ' presented along with a description of the beginnings of Denver and Colorado. Quotations given in the book appear exactly as written and, therefore, may not conform to present literary custom.