Courageous men who came up the Texas Trail and the trail drives are honored for their role in establishing the beef industry in the northern plains. Boot Hill, Ogallala’s Pioneer Cemetery, was established in the 1870s and restored by the Ogallala Jaycees in 1963 in cooperation with the Keith County Historical Society. Although the bodies were removed to the new Ogallala cemetery in the early 1900s, three coffins and bodies were discovered during excavation work in 1978, and the bodies were later reburied at the Ogallala Cemetery.