Boot Hill Cemetery

Boot Hill Cemetery sits above town and preserves Pioche's favourite legend: a silver camp so violent that men were buried with their boots on before anyone managed to die peacefully. The graves and markers are simple, but the setting makes the story work.

Come for the view as much as the folklore. From the cemetery you can look down over the old town, the courthouse, and the dry country that made law and order hard to import.

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A story
Pioche's reputation for violence was so strong that local lore claims 72 men were buried here before the town had its first natural death. The exact number is hard to prove, but the story fits the mining camp's early years.