What did Old West towns do with the carcasses of dead horses?

What did Old West towns do with the carcasses of dead horses?

Bill Rogers
Columbia, South Carolina

Ordinarily if a horse died in town or near the ranch house, folks would drag the carcass to what would be euphemistically called a “boot hill for horses,” except they didn’t bury the horse. The scavengers would take care of the remains. As heartless as that might sound, a horse weighed close to a half-ton and would be hard to handle. Even if they had dug a huge grave for the horse, scavengers would have dug up the remains anyway.