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I wanted to title this series as “All You Ever Wanted to Know About Cemeteries” by Digger O’Dell. Digger O’Dell was a character in the 1945 radio program and later TV series, “The Life of Riley.” He was known as the Friendly Undertaker who quipped morbid puns. His exit line was “Cheerio, I’d better be… shoveling
Chief Washakie was a noted chief of the Shoshone people. He was born around about 1804 and became a prominent leader of his tribe during the mid-19th century.
He has always been considered as a friend to the white men, and in 1851, at the urging of mountain man Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of