Boothill Graveyard is located in Tombstone, Arizona, a place made famous by "The Gunfight at the OK Corral," a fight between members of The Cowboys gang and the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil (sheriff at the time), and Morgan. The three Cowboys killed during the fight are buried at Boothill, so named because a lot of men buried there "died with their boots on."
The town is very much a tourist trap now, with daily reenactments of the famous altercation and places with women dressed as "soiled doves," as prostitutes were often called then. Boothill is no different. Much work was done in the mid-twentieth century to restore what had almost totally returned to nature. New wooden signs were made to replace the rotted ones and new cairns built. They used town records, testimonials and pictures to locate graves and they claim most of the graves are within a few feet of the original graves.
One of the most famous graves because of the epitaph is Lester Moore's. He worked for Wells Fargo and was shot over a dispute over a package. Moore's killer was also wounded and killed by Lester's one shot. This one always makes me giggle.
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| "Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs with a 44, no Les, no more" |
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Of course, the surrounding country side is pure Arizona, beautiful and wild.
Thanks to my friend Mel for taking these pics!
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