Boot Hill

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Boot Hill (or Boothill) is the name for any number of cemeteries, chiefly in the American West. During the 19th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of those who "died with their boots on" (i.e. violently). Also Boot Hill graves were graves made for people who would die in a strange town, and not have assets to use on a funeral.

The following is a partial list of Boot Hill Cemeteries:

Boot Hill is also a community in Cecil County, Maryland.

Trivia

As an homage to the common meaning of the term, TSR briefly marketed a Western-based role-playing game called Boot Hill. A 1970s arcade game went by the same name.

Also an element in the 1987 pc game by Synergistic Software, Rockford. In the game, when playing as the cowboy, dying leads to an animation of a boot jumping over a hill with the words "boot hill" underneath.

The pre-mission screen in computer and video game Cannon Fodder, developed by Sensible Software, is referred to in the game's manual as "Boot Hill", and depicts a hillside (or, in the second game, an alien landscape) with the gravesites of all of the soliders who die during the course of your game.