Are there real bodies buried in Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill? I’ve heard the markers are fake. Sam Boyd Via the Internet Tombstone obituaries are Troy Kelley’s hobby, and he tells me Boot Hill once stretched all the way down the hill. He knows of 250 people buried there, but nobody knows for sure how many bodies were there originally because in the 1920s, “The Broadway of America” (U.S. 80) went through part of the cemetery. Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury are buried in the


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