To their deaths with their boots on

Let us show you Billings Montana Historic sites including the Boot Hill Cemetery.

The sign at the Boot Hill Cemetery in Billings reads:

Named Boothill because so many of its occupants went to their deaths with their boots on, this cemetery was the burying grounds for Coulson, Yellowstone River town existing from 1877-1885 on the edge of what was H.M. (Muggins) Taylor, scout who took news of the Custer Massacre June 25, 1876, from the Battle area to Bozeman,. Taylor, later a deputy sheriff, was gunned down in 1882 in Coulson’s laundry as he attempted to stop the Laundress’ drunken husband from beating her.