Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the generic name of many

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, chiefly in the

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. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds for paupers.

Origin of term

Although many towns use the name "Boot Hill", the first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was at

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, five years before the founding of

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. The meaning of why cemeteries were called "Boot Hills" has been lost, but there are three plausible reasons. The first possible meaning of the term is based on poverty and alludes to the fact that many of the cemeteries' occupants were vagrants, or the impoverished. The concept is that those buried within either owned boots in such disrepair that no one salvaged the footwear, thus the footwear was left on the bodies at burial; or that the deceased owned no nicer formal clothing to place upon their bodies, which resulted in being interred wearing whatever clothing, and boots, they did possess. The second concept is fairly similar - that those buried within (having been hermits, passers-through, or vagrants) had no family to contact to claim the deceased's valuables, which would include footwear. Both of these concepts–one of poverty and worthless unsalvageable boots, the other of no next-of-kin to transfer ownership of valuables to–rely on the fact that during the 1800s
footwear had become expensive
commodities. This is because a shift in shoes occurred in the 19th century. While all clothing could be made by people in the 1800s with moderate sewing skills, and doing so was quite common in the western frontier of the U.S., making shoes and boots had become a craft of cordwainers that required the expensive technical skills and specialized tools of the shoe makers. Prior to this era, everyday wear shoes and boots were frequently made from materials, and in limited pattern sizes, that could be easily made at home, then buckled and laced-up to create a formed fit for various sized feet. A switch was made from pliable materials to stiff form-keeping leathers, allowing for footwear that was no longer ambidextrous, but tailored to each foot's specific shape, as well as individual length and width. This required further craftsmanship and work to create specifically bespoke footwear. Thus, the increased cost of Victorian footwear makes either of these two theories the most plausible. The third concept is likely a romanticized one. This postulates that the occupants of Boot Hills were cowboys who "died with their boots on", the implication here being they died violently, as in gunfights or by hanging, and not of natural causes. This idea is the most commonly cited o
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In addition to this claim having numerous problems in the logic used to support it (i.e., significant numbers of people die while wearing footwear, for all kinds of reasons), there is no evidence to suggest that gunfights and hangings were so ubiquitous that entire cemeteries all across the western U.S. needed to be devoted to these types of violent unnatural deaths. Despite the mystery of the term today, Boot Hill became a commonplace term for the neglected old municipal cemeteries throughout the U.S. West during the late 1800s and into the early 1900s as, more and more, families of means re-interred their deceased loved ones to the more elegant and exclusive grounds of the newer for-profit cemeteries. However, some Boot Hills became famous, such as the original in Dodge City, Kansas, or the Boot Hill in

Tombstone, Arizona Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Prospecting, prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona, Pima County, Arizona Territory. It became one of the last ...

, because of three men involved in the so-called O.K. Corral shootout still being buried there.

Boothill Graveyard

The most notable use of the name "Boot Hill" is at the Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona. Formerly called the "Tombstone Cemetery", the plot features the graves of

Billy Clanton William Harrison Clanton (1862 – October 26, 1881) was an outlaw Cowboy in Cochise County, Arizona Territory. He, along with his father Newman Clanton and brother Ike Clanton, worked a ranch near the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territo ...

Frank McLaury Frank McLaury born Robert Findley McLaury (March 3, 1849 – October 26, 1881) was an American outlaw. He and his brother Tom allegedly owned a ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona, although this ownership is disputed, that cowboy Frank Patterson ...

and

Tom McLaury Tom McLaury (June 30, 1853 – October 26, 1881) was an American outlaw. He and his brother Frank owned a ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona, Arizona Territory during the 1880s. He was a member of a gang of outlaws and cattle rustlers called the ...

; the three men who were killed during the famed Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Located on the northwest corner of the town, the graveyard is believed to hold over 300 persons, 205 of which are recorded. This was due to some people (especially Chinese and Jewish immigrants) being buried without record. There is a separate Jewish cemetery nearby with some markers restored, and there are also marked graves of Chinese. However, most of the loss was due to neglect of grave markers and theft of these wooden relics as souvenirs. For example, when former Tombstone Mayor John Clum visited Tombstone for the first Helldorado celebration in 1929, he was unable to locate the grave of his wife Mary, who had been buried in Boothill. The Tombstone "boothill" cemetery was closed in late 1886, as the new "City Cemetery" on Allen Street opened. Thereafter, Boothill was referred to as the "old city cemetery" and neglected. It was used after that only to bury a few later outlaws (some legally hanged and one shot in a robbery), as well as a few colorful Western characters and one man (Emmett Crook Nunnally) who had spent many volunteer hours restoring it. Currently, the Boothill Graveyard is open to the public for a $5 fee, and is a popular stop for tourists visiting Tombstone.

Boot Hill Museum

The Boot Hill Museum is located on the original location of the Boot Hill Cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas.

In popular culture

Boot Hill is the name of the cemetery in Dodge City in the ''Gunsmoke'' radio series. In many episodes, the marshal (

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) would allude to "putting you in Boot Hill", or "another man headed to Boot Hill". In the first season of the ''Gunsmoke'' television series, the introduction to each episode showed Matt Dillon walking around Boot Hill reflecting on the deaths of men buried there. Boot Hill cemetery is a main plot point in the Twilight Zone episode '' Mr. Garrity and the Graves''. Boothill Graveyards are referenced in many films such as ''

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'' (1993), ''

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'' (1994), ''

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'' (1960) and '' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957), during which it was repeatedly sung over the recurring title theme song by

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. In the later half of the movie Laine changes the theme to: ''

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, the original publisher of ''

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''. It was the third game released by TSR and notable as one of the first games to use ten-sided dice. Finnish Western writer Esa Paloniemi published his collection of Western short stories Saapaskukkula (Boothill) in 2024. Boot Hill also appears in the

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video game '' Borderlands 2'', located in 'The Dust', and playing home to a 'truxican standoff'. In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, Victor can say, “Next stop, Boot Hill” if provoked.

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wrote in 1959 a song " The Ballad of Boot Hill".

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recorded it for

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and it was released in the same year. A

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and

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. The first of three parts that compose the

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song "Country Girl", that appears in his 1970 album with

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, "

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", is called "Whiskey Boot Hill". The Outlaws' song " Hurry Sundown" also references "lying" an unnamed character in "Boot Hill". Several themes from

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's soundtrack album " Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid" (1973) contain the verse "Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya". The song " The Ballad of Billy the Kid" from

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's 1973 Album '' Piano Man'' contains the lyrics "And he never had a sweetheart, but he finally found a home, underneath the boothill grave that bears his name". "Boot Hill" (unknown) is the first track on

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's 1991 posthumous release The Sky is Crying. It was recorded in early 1989 and is one of the last fully produced songs completed prior to his untimely death in 1990. In

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, the term 'Boot Hill' is used to refer to the fielding position of short-leg because of its proximity to the batsman and high likelihood of being hit by the ball, making the position particularly dangerous. Players fielding in this position typically wear a helmet and other protection. In the comic book series ''Preacher'', the Saint of Killers rests at a tomb on Boot Hill when not actively pursuing his goals. Boot Hill Cemetery is the name of the graveyard at

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. In season 5 episode 16 of the animated series ''

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'', " Pest of the West", the character Spongebuck is told the old sheriff of Dead-Eye Gulch is at Boot Hill. Boothill is a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail.

Gallery

Tombstone, Arizona

File:BootHillCemeteryTombstone.jpg, The entrance to Boothill Graveyard
File:TombstoneGraves.JPG, Graves of Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers File:Boot Hill 02.jpg, Alleged grave of John Wesley Heath File:BHGravestone1.jpg, Grave of George Johnson File:TwoChinese.jpg, Grave of "Two Chinese" File:Gene Barry Bat Masterson Tombstone Arizona 1960.JPG,

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Bat Masterson Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was bo ...

standing next to Lester Moore's grave in 1960 File:Tombstone Boot Hill, FSA, 1940.jpg, The Boothill Graveyard in 1940 File:TombstoneinTombstone.jpg, Graves of Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Tex Howard, Bill Delaney and Dan Kelly in 1940 File:BHTCactus.jpg, A blooming prickly pear at Boothill Graveyard

Deadwood, South Dakota

File:Mt Moriah Cemetery.jpg, Deadwood's Boot Hill, the Mount Moriah Cemetery File:Deadwood Cemetery- Wild Bill and Calamity Jane.jpg, Plaques for

Wild Bill Hickok James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, reconnaissance, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, s ...

and

Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1856 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American American frontier, frontierswoman, Exhibition shooting, sharpshooter, sex worker, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known f ...

File:Steve and Charlie Utter.jpg, Grave of Wild Bill Hickok File:Grabill - Wild Bills Monument.jpg, Bust of Wild Bill Hickok in 1891 File:Wild Bill Monument Deadwood South Dakota.jpg, Bust of Wild Bill Hickok File:Seth Bullock Tombstone.jpg, Grave of

Seth Bullock Seth Bullock (July 23, 1849 – September 23, 1919) was a Canadian-American frontiersman, business proprietor, politician, sheriff, and U.S. Marshal. He was a prominent citizen in Deadwood, South Dakota, where he lived from 1876 until his death, ...

and his wife Martha

Dodge City, Kansas

File:Boot Hill Museum Entrance (Great Western Hotel).jpg, The entrance to the Boot Hill Museum File:Boot Hill Museum Shops - West.jpg, The shops at Boot Hill Museum, including a reconstruction of the Long Branch Saloon File:Graves at Boot Hill, Dodge City, KS, 1959(1).jpg, Graves at the Boot Hill Cemetery in 1959 File:Hanging Tree at Dodge City (color print).jpg, Graves and the Hangman's Tree File:Hangman's tree, Dodge City, KS, 1959.jpg, The Hangman's Tree File:John M Lawson at Boot Hill Cemetery.jpg, John M Lawson at Boot Hill Cemetery

Miscellaneous

File:152631159106 0 ALB.jpg, The Boot Hill Cemetery at Tilden, Texas in 2006 File:738340030206 0 ALB.jpg, Historical marker in front of the Tilden Boot Hill Cemetery File:Soapy Smith grave Skagway 2009.jpg, Soapy Smith's grave at the

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, Boot Hill File:Frank Reid Grave 1 Skagway 2009.jpg, Grave of Frank H. Reid in Skagway File:Boot Hill Billings, Montana.JPG, The Boothill Cemetery at Coulson, Montana File:Virginiacity.jpg, View of

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, from Boot Hill

List of places with Boot Hill cemeteries

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* Bonanza, Idaho * Calabasas,

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* Canyon City, Oregon *

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* Coulson, Montana *

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* Mowry, Arizona * Newton, Kansas *

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* Silver Reef, Utah *

* Tascosa, Texas * Tilden, Texas * Tincup, Colorado *

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References

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