On the way to Bisbee we stopped at Tombstone for a quick look at BootHill Graveyard, the famous cemetery where nefarious characters from the gunslinger days are buried. We took a quick walk around the cemetery and saw some very interesting inscriptions on the stones. Someone had a sense of humour?
Apparently the original BootHill is in Kansas. When the Tombstone cemetery was "refurbished" it was renamed BootHill for dramatic effect. The Earps, Clantons and other famous cowboys are actually buried here however. That is not fiction. Many tombstones are dated 1882 which must have been an exciting year in the wild west! Mining towns in the west were not for the faint hearted.
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| Sandy loving AZ |
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| Each tombstone actually stated the cause of death! As morbid as this seems it was actually quite funny. |
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| What a lovely inscription! |
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