Focus on the Legendary Boothill Graveyard: Thanks to restoration efforts at Boothill, most graves are now marked with wooden boards. Left: Joseph Ziegler, Murdered, 1882. "Ziegler, age 27, was short one night through the left breast and lived only a few minutes. He and Ed Williams, who shot him, were miners and had been quarreling while working that day. The murder took place behind the old ice house, near the corner of Toughnut and Fifth Streets." Right: Here lies George Johnson, Hanged by Mistake, 1882. "Johnson, innocently bought a stolen horse and suffered the consquences." So says the pamphlet put out by the cemetery association. See what a difference three decades has made by comparing the graves then and now. [2018]
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