Editing Boot Hill (section)

==In popular culture==
Boot Hill is the name of the cemetery in Dodge City in the [[Gunsmoke#Radio version|''Gunsmoke'' radio series]]. In many episodes, the marshal ([[Marshal Matt Dillon|Matt Dillon]]) would allude to "putting you in Boot Hill", or "another man headed to Boot Hill". In the first season of the [[Gunsmoke#Television version|''Gunsmoke'' television series]], the introduction to each episode showed Matt Dillon walking around Boot Hill reflecting on the deaths of men buried there.

Boot Hill cemetery is a main plot point in the [[The Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]] episode ''[[Mr. Garrity and the Graves]]''.

Boothill Graveyards are referenced in many films such as ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'' (1993), ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' (1994), ''[[The Magnificent Seven (film)|The Magnificent Seven]]'' (1960) and ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957), during which it was repeatedly sung over the recurring title theme song by [[Frankie Laine]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xKTwcx7h70C&pg=PA58 |title=Best Western Movies: Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and Hollywood B Entries |first=John Howard |last=Reid |publisher=[[Lulu.com]] |year=2006 |page=58 |isbn=978-1847281814}}</ref> In the later half of the movie Laine changes the theme to:
{{cquote|
Boothill... Boothill...
<br />
So cold... so still...
<br />
There they lay side by side,
<br />
the killers that died,
<br />
in the Gunfight at O.K. Corral.
}}

''[[Boot Hill (role-playing game)|Boot Hill]]'' is the name of a [[role playing game]] first published in 1975 by [[TSR, Inc.]], the original publisher of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. It was the third game released by TSR and notable as one of the first games to use ten-sided dice.

Finnish Western writer Esa Paloniemi published his collection of Western short stories Saapaskukkula (Boothill) in 2024.

Boot Hill also appears in the [[first-person shooter]] video game ''[[Borderlands 2]]'', located in 'The Dust', and playing home to a 'truxican standoff'.

In the video game [[Fallout: New Vegas]], Victor can say, “Next stop, Boot Hill” if provoked.

[[Carl Perkins]] wrote in 1959 a song "[[The Ballad of Boot Hill]]". [[Johnny Cash]] recorded it for [[Columbia Records]] and it was released in the same year.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0NEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 |title=The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash |first=John M. |last=Alexander |publisher=[[University of Arkansas Press]] |year= 2018 |page=70 |isbn=978-1682260517}}</ref>

A [[Spaghetti Western]] named ''[[Boot Hill (film)|Boot Hill]]'' was released in 1969 and it featured [[Terence Hill]] and [[Bud Spencer]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fmb4rh/boot-hill/ |title=Boot Hill |first=Tony |last=Sloman |access-date=12 January 2019 |journal=[[Radio Times]] |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company Ltd]]}}</ref>

The first of three parts that compose the [[Neil Young]] song "Country Girl", that appears in his 1970 album with [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]], "[[Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album)|Déjà Vu]]", is called "Whiskey Boot Hill".

The Outlaws' song "[[Hurry Sundown (Outlaws album)|Hurry Sundown]]" also references "lying" an unnamed character in "Boot Hill".

Several themes from [[Bob Dylan]]'s soundtrack album "[[Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid]]" (1973) contain the verse "Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya".

The song "[[The Ballad of Billy the Kid]]" from [[Billy Joel]]'s 1973 Album ''[[Piano Man (Billy Joel album)|Piano Man]]'' contains the lyrics "And he never had a sweetheart, but he finally found a home, underneath the boothill grave that bears his name".

"Boot Hill" (unknown) is the first track on [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]]'s 1991 posthumous release [[The Sky Is Crying (album)|The Sky is Crying]]. It was recorded in early 1989 and is one of the last fully produced songs completed prior to his untimely death in 1990.

In [[Cricket]], the term 'Boot Hill' is used to refer to the fielding position of short-leg because of its proximity to the batsman and high likelihood of being hit by the ball, making the position particularly dangerous. Players fielding in this position typically wear a helmet and other protection.

In the comic book series [[Preacher (comics)|''Preacher'']], the Saint of Killers rests at a tomb on Boot Hill when not actively pursuing his goals.

Boot Hill Cemetery is the name of the graveyard at [[Phantom Manor]] in [[Disneyland Paris]].

In season 5 episode 16 of the animated series ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', "[[Pest of the West]]", the character Spongebuck is told the old sheriff of Dead-Eye Gulch is at Boot Hill.

Boothill is a playable character in [[Honkai: Star Rail]].