Boothill Monument and Graves

This cemetery is just off Main Street and Airport Road in Billings Heights.

"Named Boothill because so many of its occupants went to their deaths with their boots on, this cemetery was the burying ground for Coulson Yellowstone River Town existing from 1877-1885 on the edge of what was to be Billings.  Most famous buried here was H. M. (Muggins) Taylor, Scout who took news of Custer Massacre June 25, 1876, from the Battle area to Bozeman.  Taylor, later Deputy Sheriff, was gunned down in 1882 in Coulson's Laundry as he attempted to stop the laundress' drunken husband from beating her."

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