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Welcome to the Boot Hill Graveyard and Gift Shop in Tombstone, Arizona where outlaws and the likes of Wyatt Earp and "Doc" Holliday became western legends and household names.
Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [2] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others.
Boothill Graveyard in historic Tombstone, Arizona is quite likely the most famous Wild West cemetery in the world. Buried at Boothill Graveyard are Lawmen, Outlaws, Ranchers, Gamblers, Husbands, Wives, Children, and many others.
Sometime around 1929 and the towns first Helldorado Days, people started calling the "Old Cemetery" Boot Hill Graveyard. Its occupants ran the spectrum of all the cultures and nationalities of early Tombstone.
Founded in 1879, Boothill Graveyard was used until the new cemetery – New Tombstone City Cemetery – opened in 1884. After the new cemetery opened and began being used, Boothill Graveyard was called “The Old Cemetery.”
A rocky burying grounds atop a hill in the historic Old West town of Tombstone, Arizona, Boothill Graveyard is a looking glass through which we can see a time and place where death came...
Many famous outlaws and lawmen are buried amongst the lesser known people who once called Tombstone their home. People such as Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton who were all killed during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Tombstone's Boothill Graveyard has a long and varied history. Many historical researchers and authors have written about the "Old Cemetery" over the years and we offer here a collection of articles for you to peruse, about Boothill which is one of Tombstone, Arizona's most famous landmarks.
Between 1879 and 1884, about 300 people were buried in the Tombstone Boothill Graveyard, including the separate Chinese & Jewish sections. Approximately 121 (40%) did not die of old age.
A HISTORY of TOMBSTONE'S BOOTHILL GRAVEYARD. by Kathy Franz. Boothill. The mere word conjures up images of a lonely, broken-down cemetery on a hilltop filled with crooked wooden markers over graves of cowboys, gunslingers and gamblers shot with their boots on (or perhaps, their boots off.)