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Boot Hill. 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. The term became commonplace throughout the Old West.
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What famous cemetery was in dodge city?
boot hill
What famous cemetery was in Dodge City and how did it get its name?
Boot Hill Cemetery, Buffalo hunters, railroad workers, drifters and soldiers scrapped and fought, leading to the shootings where men died. The people killed were buried so quickly that undertaker dug shallow graves and buried the people with their boots on, so when it would rain you would see the boots sticking up through the ground from the soil erosion.
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