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The Boot Hill Cemetery site became known as Boot Hill due to the custom of burying gunfighters with their boots on or behind their heads. An estimated 32 men and one woman were buried there, and the names of many are unknown because they died without friends or money. Their deaths occurred between 1872 and 1876. In 1878, the graves were moved to the newly established Prairie Grove Cemetery.
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