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- proper noun Name used for many
cemeteries in the AmericanOld West ;nickname for any cemetery.
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Examples
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It's in the southeast portion of Missouri, above what's known as the Boot Hill (ph) area.
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It's not for nothing that cricketers refer to short leg as "Boot Hill".
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Luzon; "you would have done it much better than I, but your long hospitalization and transfer to" Boot Hill "interfered.
Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs
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Dodge City's Boot Hill attraction and western museum has grown much more impressive since my last visit in 1978.
Road Trip grrm 2010
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But the Bush Gang and its posse of Beltway Bandits have been the ones to finally gun down our once-powerful ideal of the American Cowboy and send it to Boot Hill.
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I remember how D&D led to me to discover Champions, and Boot Hill, and Top Secret, and Traveller.
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Its famed cemetery, Boot Hill, was founded in 1872 as a burial place for slow-triggered gentlemen and satin-slippered ladies.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Tascosans had a big burying in Boot Hill next day.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Dodge City - the home of Boot Hill and cowboys, gunfighters and Saloons.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Dodge City - the home of Boot Hill and cowboys, gunfighters and Saloons.
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