Tombstone, founded in 1879, took its name from the silver mining claim filed by Ed
Schieffelin which he called 'The Tombstone'. Tombstone quickly became a boomtown. The quick growth brought with many characters looking to strke it
rich quick. Saloons popped up all over the place and with them, gunfights. Those who 'died with their boots on' (ie., violently) were taken to
Boot Hill for burial. It was a site for graves of people who dies in a strange town without assets for a funeral - known as pauper's graves.
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