BOOT HILL
Site — Dodge City, Kansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/boot-hill-dodge-city-kansas/

The hill where they died with their boots on.

A site in Dodge City, Kansas, Boot Hill is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The hill where they died with their boots on. HauntHunt files it with historic cemeteries, the frontier and dark history. The presences in its file go unnamed: the boot hill dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Boot Hill is the boots' — the '72-'78 cemetery for the penniless, the 'died with their boots on' that's the name. The thirty were the buried — the Black Jack who was first, the Alice Chambers who was the dance hall. The school was the eviction — the '78 relocation to Prairie Grove, the building that's the site.
The buffalo were the 850k — the hides that were shipped, the bones that the farmers sold. The law was the deadline — the tracks that divided the town, the 'anything goes' that was south. Boot Hill is the tourist — the museum that's the cemetery's site, the gunfights that are reenacted.
The file keeps Boot Hill: the 1872-78 cemetery, the 30 buried, the '78 relocation, and the museum.
Boot Hill is the archive's Dodge City file — the boots-on cemetery.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Boot Hill is the archive's Dodge City file — the dying-with-boots-on.
A cemetery keeps its name — the file's suggestion being that Boot Hill's hold is the burial: the no-coffin graves, the '78 eviction, and the museum that's the site.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Boot Hill dead. The reports at Boot Hill are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Boot Hill' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. 'Boot Hill' carries the account. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Boot Hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Hill)
· [Investigation claim] apparition: Reported figures at the cemetery. Boot Hill in Dodge City, Kansas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. 'Boot Hill' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Boot Hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Hill)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The cemetery’s history is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Boot Hill' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Boot Hill — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Hill

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