Tombstone’s main cemetery is on the west end of town, on Allen Street. In the early 1880s, some “good folks” chose not to have their family members buried alongside the notorious ones at Boot Hill.

Boot Hill is a real graveyard. The bodies buried there include Tom and Frank McLaury’s, Billy Clanton’s and the bodies of five men hanged in 1884 for the Bisbee Massacre (see Delaney entry). Other “residents”?include M.R. Peel, who was murdered in Charleston, and ladies from the red light district.

Boothill once stretched all the way down the hill. We know the bodies of 250 people are buried there, but nobody knows for certain how many graves are still at Boot Hill. The “Broadway of America,” U.S. 80, was built through Tombstone in the 1920s—right through part of the cemetery, so some remains are under the highway.