Historical Marker
Boot Hill Cemetery
Historical marker location:
US 385 at Boy's Ranch, Vega, Texas
( In cemetery near entrance to Boy's Ranch. From Vega take US 385 north about 24 miles to Boy's Ranch.)
Marker installed: 1936
Along with law-abiding and God-fearing men and women were buried here, often without benefit of clergy, men who "died with their boots on". The name was borrowed from a cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas, while it was a resort of buffalo hunters and trail drivers.