A crude grave marker at a very real Boot Hill (not the tourist-attraction variety of some U.S. western cities) in Ogallala, a small city in southwest Nebraska that was once on the Oregon Trail and, later, the line of the Transcontinental Railroad. This and other real boot hills are the graveyards of cowboys, outlaws, horse thieves, and pioneer family members in the days of the Old West. Most of those interred were, indeed, buried with their boots on. Thus the location's name, on an actual and high hill. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.