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Boot Hill Cemetery

Boys Ranch, Oldham County

Marker Text

Along with law-abiding and God-fearing men and women were buried here, often without benefit of clergy, men who "died with their boots on". The name was borrowed from a cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas, while it was a resort of buffalo hunters and trail drivers. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Marker Details

Address 8 Julian Bivins Rd.
Location Description Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. Cemetery is 0.3 mi. SE of the entrance on Spur 233 off US 385
Marker # 454
Dedicated 1936
Size, Type 1936 Texas Centennial - historical marker (gray granite)
Code cemetery; outlaws
  • Private Property:

    Unknown
  • Latitude, Longitude 35.530774, -102.26287

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