Explaining EVERY BURIAL in Montana’s Boothill Cemetery (almost)

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    Welcome to Boothill Cemtery in Billings, MT! Originally the cemetery for Coulson, MT. Today I want to tell you about how many of the cemetery’s occupants met their fate.
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    References/Further Reading:
    www.hmdb.org/m...
    sites.rootsweb...
    Montana : a state guide book - Federal Works Agency, 1939
    The Billings Herald - July 27th, 1950
    The Billings Gazette - July 24th, 1932
    The Billings Gazette - June 30th, 1927
    The Deer Lodge New Northwest - June 2nd, 1882
    Montana Oil and Mining Journal - May 9th, 1942
    The Butte Miner - January 24th, 1921
    The Billings Gazette - September 8th, 1935
    The Helena Independent Record - August 6th, 1935
    The Helena Independent Record - August 6th, 1935
    The Deer Lodge New Northwest - November 21st, 1890
    The Billings Gazette - April 26th, 1942
    The Rocky Mountain Husbandman - April 10th, 1879
    The Rocky Mountain Husbandman - April 3rd, 1879
    The Fort Benton River Press - June 1st, 1881
    The Montana Standard - September 3rd, 2002
    The Billings Gazette - June 30th, 1927
    The Billings Gazette - July 24th, 1932
    The Livingston Enterprise - May 7th, 1887
    The Billings Herald - December 28th, 1882
    The Billings Gazette - May 4th, 1982
    The Billings Gazette - May 6th, 1956
    The Helena Weekly Herald - January 10th, 1889
    Helena Weekly Herald - May 18th, 1882
    The Fort Benton River Press - June 1st, 1881
    The Billings Herald - June 8th, 1882
    The Bozeman Chronicle - November 14th, 1883
    The Bozeman Chronicle - May 13th, 1885
    Helena Weekly Herald - April 13th, 1882
    Helena Weekly Herald - November 9th, 1882

КОМЕНТАРІ • 37

  • @Ritakitty
    @Ritakitty Рік тому +78

    This is legitimately my favourite channel on youtube. There's something magical about someone digging up nearly forgotten stories and telling them again. It brings us all a little closer to history and I love it.

  • @stuartdilts2729
    @stuartdilts2729 8 місяців тому +16

    The violent deaths are unsurprising when you consider that the name "Boot Hill" is a common name for cemeteries for people who died with their boots on. That is, unexpectedly and not usually peacefully.

  • @hothhead5677
    @hothhead5677 Рік тому +33

    This channel feels like finding a hidden gem in a 150 year old newspaper. Its a real shame you don't have more subscribers because your videos are really really great.

  • @iebarnett51
    @iebarnett51 Рік тому +23

    Mrs. Alderson a real one!
    Great video

  • @chrisball3778
    @chrisball3778 9 місяців тому +18

    In my head I like to think it was Mrs Alderson who pulled the trigger but John took the rap for it just in case the law deemed it murder, as the only way he could think of to repay her loyalty to him. That's the only way you could make that last story even cooler.

  • @jldisme
    @jldisme Рік тому +12

    Here's to Mrs. Alderson!

  • @Groverrulz
    @Groverrulz Рік тому +10

    This genuinely is such an underrated channel. Every video is quality and gives the exact same feeling as an older family member sharing stories and tales from long before you were ever around.

  • @andrewhall3715
    @andrewhall3715 Рік тому +9

    I definitely think it's important to remember these people and their stories. Even those who died and were never written about.

    • @montananerd8244
      @montananerd8244 Місяць тому

      We actually take good care of them! And we do try to tell as many previously untold stories as we can. Oh lol sorry, my work is associated with this cemetery, I just went over there today! One of our volunteers is a death historian and is actually trying to put old burial records into more useful shape, and is working to track down as many names & stories as we can. Those lost to tragedy and misfortune are in our hearts and we’re honestly happiest when we can put these folks into their proper place in history. They are always on our minds.

  • @zachwaller933
    @zachwaller933 Рік тому +11

    I hope to die in some slightly notable or comedic way so that someone, 140 years later, can commicate the story to the world through a technology I could never comprehend...

  • @hhhhhhiiiiiii13
    @hhhhhhiiiiiii13 Рік тому +5

    the video i didn't know i needed until now!!!!!!

  • @validpostage
    @validpostage Рік тому +4

    i really love your videos about cemeteries, whether their inhabitants, their architecture, their geography... always a treat to sit down and learn something special about these little places!

  • @montananerd8244
    @montananerd8244 Місяць тому +1

    Hiiii! Hope you see this! A volunteer at my work - the western heritage center - is working on even more research for boothill and other early burials, please feel free to reach out if you ever return. He was a mortician for 20 years, then the superintendent of the big cemetery, & now a death historian who just wants to make sure everyone is remembered & accounted for.

    • @montananerd8244
      @montananerd8244 Місяць тому +1

      Also we have photos of the old headstones. Many are so heart breaking and very vivid, it would make most people extremely sad to see them. But you can contact us if you are ever interested & back here, right in billings. We aren’t the museum by the airport, we are downtown & are more of an interpretive center.

  • @trevorroth
    @trevorroth 7 місяців тому +1

    Down at Coulson Park on the river, there's a big stone with a plaque on it that says:
    "Born by the River, and killed by the Railroad, giving to Billings her best citizens, to Boothill her residue, and to the Yellowstone, her memories."

  • @smusic-vm1zd
    @smusic-vm1zd Рік тому +4

    6:00 That's the way the shiteagle flies Randy!

    • @validpostage
      @validpostage Рік тому

      Mr. Lahey vs Bill Preston! history said it couldn't be done!

  • @Jordan_Starr
    @Jordan_Starr Рік тому +5

    I hope when I die there is a future dime store adventures to tell my story 🥰

  • @ScarletRebel96
    @ScarletRebel96 Рік тому +9

    This just gave me 1 more on the list of many reasons not to trust people named Dutch

  • @JO-iv4xw
    @JO-iv4xw Рік тому +2

    Awesome work, as usual!

  • @MrDongodon
    @MrDongodon Рік тому +6

    Truth is Funny as hell

  • @athehybrid
    @athehybrid 7 місяців тому

    Thank you for teaching me my Montana history 🫡

  • @lyndaproper1313
    @lyndaproper1313 8 місяців тому

    It's true, the story of the beauty of the sky in Montana. What wonderful pictures you have taken! Thank you.

  • @DoloresJNurss
    @DoloresJNurss 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for the conviction that even ruffians are human beings and have the right to be remembered.

  • @d.l.d.l.8140
    @d.l.d.l.8140 8 місяців тому +1

    Shot through the jugglers vein. Must’ve been a carnival in town.

  • @HLBear
    @HLBear 8 місяців тому +1

    Big Horn... Sioux... I think we can guess which skirmish that was.
    (Died in the Battle of Little Big Horn.)

  • @pamgoodridge7638
    @pamgoodridge7638 Рік тому +3

    How many residents in Yellowstone County even know that is there?

  • @dankymcdankerson789
    @dankymcdankerson789 6 місяців тому +1

    What I would do to learn what was going through the head of the bar tender who watched a man walk into his bar and say “whelp finally going home tomorrow” followed by him promptly throwing his gun on the bar and accidentally shooting himself dead

  • @sayntfuu
    @sayntfuu 6 місяців тому

    Hey I grew up around the Bighorn Mountains. YOu should check out the old Sheridan, WY graveyard.

  • @carmichael3594
    @carmichael3594 Рік тому +1

    Love it, wild west for sure

  • @IrishObyrne
    @IrishObyrne 6 місяців тому

    What happened to the headstones? Are the bodies still buried there?

  • @JadedGenXer
    @JadedGenXer 15 днів тому

    Way weird to hear my name in one of your cemetery tours.
    A.E. Bell

  • @caseydarrah
    @caseydarrah 7 місяців тому

    ... juggler vein?

  • @RobCardIV
    @RobCardIV Рік тому +3

    : )