There is a separate Jewish cemetery nearby with some markers restored, and there are also marked graves of Chinese. This was due to some people (especially Chinese and Jewish immigrants) being buried without record. Located on the northwest corner of the town, the graveyard is believed to hold over 300 persons, 205 of which are recorded. 31☄3′11.6″N 110☀4′13.6″W / 31.719889°N 110.070444°W / 31.719889 -110.070444 ( Boothill Graveyard) Formerly called the 'Tombstone Cemetery', the plot features the graves of Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury the three men who were killed during the famed Gunfight at the O.K. The most notable use of the name 'Boot Hill' is at the Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona.

The term became commonplace throughout the Old West, with some Boot Hills becoming famous, such as Dodge City, Kansas, Tombstone, Arizona, and Deadwood, South Dakota.

The term alludes to the fact that many of its occupants 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. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters, or those who ' died with their boots on' (i.e., violently).Īlthough many towns use the name 'Boot Hill,' the first graveyard named 'Boot Hill' was at Hays, Kansas, 5 years before the founding of Dodge City, Kansas. Tombstone, Arizona's Boothill Graveyard in 2009īoot Hill, or Boothill, is the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. For other uses, see Boot Hill (disambiguation).

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