what town in kansas is home to boot hill
Boot Hill Origin of term. Although many towns use the name Boot Hill, the first graveyard named Boot Hill was at Hays, Kansas, 5 years before the founding of Dodge City, Kansas. The term alludes to the fact that many of its occupants were cowboys who died with their boots on, the implication here being they died violently, as in gunfights or by hanging, and not of natural causes.