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BOOT HILL

Boot Hill The western sunset over Arizona foretells of a legend that lingers, money-hungry cowboys with happy-go-lucky, jump gun fingers, myths of old passed down from stories told, the birth of bandits, and the boom of gold.   Unlike Big Valley, Gunsmoke and Wagon Train, Glen Ford, Gene Audrey, and superstar- John Wayne. I know of real heroes and outlaws like Jesse James and Buffalo Bill, but mostly I recall the saddened tales of famed, old "BOOT HILL".   A land now silenced with mesquite, cactus, and crucifixion thorn, but back then it was Apache country where the shout of gold was sworn. Onward pioneers went to settle the lands of the west so wild in covered wagons toting their possessions and the smallest of child.   Ready for riches toward the setting sun went many a man and wife to a lawless land except that of gun and knife where all too often bragging-drunken cowboys left the saloon not to lie in bed at home, but under piles of rock at Mount Dragoon.   They called it Tombstone Boot Hill or Cemetery - both just the same, graves marked only by sticks of cross, epitaph, date, and occupant’s name. Defining this western way, dubbed as "THE TOWN TOO TOUGH TO DIE", buried with your "boots on", "Where's my daddy?", wives and children would cry!   Even now on the edge of every camp in Boot Hill's little town sits a graveyard of hapless westerners predestined to pull intruders down or so I've heard, hence, the sunset of this paradigm could be the west of yesterday, and 20th century visitors could be buried with their "Boots On"- even today. If ever in Boot Hill, Arizona, watch out! If ever you sleep with your boots on when there, watch out! Watch out, where you lie your head down at night, this could happen to you, too, it very well might!

Copyright © July 2000 Nick A Evans

Additional Notes:
Thanks again for reading and please try imagining being in Boot Hill, AZ as you read this poem, it is eerie! P.S. I think that AZ is beautiful BTW for all you AZ poets! ;o)especially the sunsets over the mesquite, cactus, and crucifixion thorn!


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