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Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the name for any number of cemeteries, chiefly in the American West. During the 19th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters, or those who " died with their boots on" (i.e., violently).
Boot Hill is a western-themed role-playing game designed by Brian Blume, Gary Gygax, and Don Kaye (although Kaye unexpectedly died before the game was published), and first published in 1975. Boot Hill was TSR's third role-playing game, appearing not long after Dungeons & Dragons and Empire of the Petal Throne, and taking its name from the popular Wild West term for "cemetery". Boot Hill was marketed to take advantage of America's love of the western genre. The game did feature some new game mechanics, such as the use of percentile dice, but its focus on gunfighting rather than role-playing, as well as the lethal nature of its combat system, limited its appeal. Boot Hill was issued in three editions over 15 years, but it never reached the same level of popularity as D&D and other fantasy-themed role-playing games.
Boot Hill is a shooter arcade game released by Midway in 1977. The game is a sequel to Gun Fight.
Boot Hill is the name for a number of cemeteries, chiefly in the American West.
Boot Hill may also refer to:
- Boot Hill (video game), an arcade game from Midway
- Boot Hill (film), a western starring Terence Hill
- Boot Hill (role-playing game), a role-playing game from TSR, Inc.
- Boot Hill Bowl, a now defunct post-season college football game played in Dodge City, Kansas
- "Boot Hill", a song performed by artists such as Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Boot Hill, a mountain in[Mare Tranquillitatis on the moon
- Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas
- Boot Hill, another name for the fielding position of short leg in cricket, see Glossary of cricket terms#B
Boot Hill is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. This film is the last one in a trilogy that started with God Forgives... I Don't! (1967), followed by Ace High (1968).
The film was rereleased as Trinity Rides Again. The title change and rerelease was in order to cash in on the success of They Call Me Trinity (1970) and Trinity Is Still My Name (1971).
Boot Hill is a small lunar mountain that is located in Mare Tranquillitatis, about 45 km south of the crater Maskelyne, and about 210 km east of the Apollo 11 landing site. The peak at its north end rises approximately 230 m above the surrounding mare.
Unlike many other lunar features named by the Apollo astronauts, the name of the mountain is not formally recognized by the International Astronomical Union. However, Boot Hill and other informal features such as the nearby Duke Island or Mount Marilyn (within Montes Secchi) were significant landmarks used by the astronauts for navigation to the first landing site.
Usage examples of "boot hill".
They backed away in a hurry, as if expecting the two outworlders carrying guns to immediately slap leather and blow sai Took all the way to Calla Boot Hill.
They planted the other one, wrapped in his blankets, out on Boot Hill.
Of the seventy-five graves on boot hill at least twenty had been put there by him or his henchmen.
Dodge City was settled in 1871 and the Santa Fe Railroad came through in 1872, and pretty soon Dodge became the cowboy capital of the West, the end of the Texas Trail, shootouts, Wyatt Earp, Boot Hill, and all that.
But I'll tell you this, daughter of Maclaren, before I sleep in Boot Hill there will be sons and daughters of ours on this ground.