Their Last Resting Place

Grave Locations of the Old West

Click on any land area of the map to choose a region, or go to the Graves List to choose an individual of interest.

Please e-mail the undertaker with additions or corrections. Contributions of grave sites of female, Native American, black, Chinese, and other lesser-known Old West figures will be greatly appreciated.

"Their Last Resting Place: Grave Locations of the Old West" was originally developed for the Faultline Shootist Society, and is used with permission.

Last updated 25 December 2005

North American graves Arizona Billy Clanton, Warren Earp California Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, Jack Hays Colorado Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, Louis L'Amour Connecticut Samuel Colt Dakota Territory Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane Kansas Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, Billy Dixon Kentucky Daniel Boone Missouri Cole Younger Montana New Mexico Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett New York George A. Custer, Bat Masterson Oklahoma Billy Dixon Oregon Virgil Earp Texas Judge Roy Bean, Jim Bowie, Woodrow F. Call, Davy Crockett, Augustus McCrae, Ben Thompson, William B. Travis Wyoming Tom Horn

South American graves Bolivia Harry 'Sundance Kid' Longabaugh, George L. 'Butch Cassidy' Parker Old Mexico Henry Fardan   Australian graves Ned Kelly

List of individual graves

• E.C. 'Teddy Blue' Abbott; currently unknown
  Haj Ali {Hi Jolly}; died in Quartzsite, Arizona, 16 December 1903; currently unknown
  William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson; currently unknown
  John Armstrong; died in 1913; currently unknown
  Stephen F. Austin; died in November, 1836; buried in the Texas State Cemetery, Austin
  Orvon Gene Autry; died in Los Angeles, October 2, 1998; currently unknown
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• Elfego Baca; died in Albuquerque in 1945; currently unknown
  Jim Baker; died in Wyoming in 1898; currently unknown
  Barboncito {Navajo}; currently unknown
  Captain Albert Barnitz, Seventh Cavalry; buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia {courtesy Charles Barnitz}
  Sam Bass; buried in Williamson County, Texas {courtesy Shan}
  Charlie Bassett; currently unknown
  Judge Roy Bean; died in Del Rio, Texas, March 16, 1903; buried there.
  Bull Bear {Cheyenne}; chief of the dog soldiers; currently unknown
  Sitting Bear {Kiowa}; killed by soldiers in 1871; currently unknown
  Jim Beckwourth, scout; currently unknown
  Albert Bierstadt, painter; currently unknown
  William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney; shot by Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 14 July 1881; currently unknown.
  Daniel Boone; died in Missouri, September 26, 1820; 'buried' in Frankfort, Kentucky or Defiance, Missouri, depending. {courtesy John Aldrich, Cecil Sowers, and Outlaw Slim}
  Charlie Bowdre; shot at Stinking Springs, New Mexico, 23 December 1880 by Pat Garrett ; currently unknown
  James 'Jim' Bowie; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
  Jim Bridger; currently unknown
  William 'Curly Bill' Brocius; shot by Wyatt Earp; currently unknown
  Sitting Bull {Hunkpapa Lakota}; killed by Red Tomahawk, 15 December 1890; currently unknown
  Sitting Bull {Ogallala Lakota}; died 15 December 1890; currently unknown
  Tall Bull {Cheyenne}; dog soldier; died 11 July 1869; currently unknown
  'Ned Buntline', aka Edward Z.C. Judson; died 16 July 1886 in New York City; currently unknown
  Martha Jane Cannary Burk, see Calamity Jane
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• Calamity Jane; died in Terry, South Daktota, 1 August 1903; buried alongside her reputed (if doubtful) lover Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood.
  White Calf {Piegan}; died 29 January 1903; currently unknown
  California Joe; see Moses Milner
  Woodrow F. Call; currently unknown
  Martha Jane Cannary, see Calamity Jane
  Frank Canton; in 1927; currently unknown
  Christopher 'Kit' Carson; killed at Fort Lyon, Colorado; currently unknown
  Butch Cassidy
  Scarface Charley {Modoc}; died 3 December 1896; currently unknown
  Jesse Chisholm; currently unknown
  Ike Clanton; currently unknown
  William 'Billy' Clanton; shot at the O.K. Corral, 26 October 1881; buried in Tombstone, Arizona.
  Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain; buried in Elmira, New York. {courtesy Bruce Brackney}
  Chatto {Apache}; currently unknown
  Chihuahua {Apache}; died 25 July 1901; currently unknown
  William Clark; currently unknown
  Samuel 'Mark Twain' Clemens; currently unknown
  Red Cloud {Ogallala Lakota}; died 10 December 1909; currently unknown
  Cochise {Chiricahua Apache}; died 8 June 1874; currently unknown
  William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; died in 1917, buried alongside his wife Louisa, at the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum & Grave, 987 1/2 Look Out Mountain Road, Golden, Colorado. {Call for information: (303) 526-0747}
  Mangas Colorado {Mimbreno Apache}; killed near Fort McLean, New Mexico, 17 January 1863; currently unknown
  Samuel Colt; died 10 January 1862, in Hartford, Connecticut; currently unknown
  William Averill 'Buffalo Bill' Comstock; lost a challenge match with Bill Cody over the sobriquet "Buffalo Bill", 69 bison to 49, in 1868. "Bill Comstock could take Buffalo Bill out at night and lose him. Cody was a good man, but Comstock...and I am not alone in this...was a better man"; quote by Charles Chase, an Indian fighter who knew both men. Killed, purportedly by Abner T. 'Sharp' Grover but perhaps by Cheyennes, on 27 August 1868 in Kansas; buried in the Fort Wallace (Kansas) cemetery, "third grave south of the northeast corner". {courtesy Kimberly Elliott}
  Gregorio Cortez; died in Anson, Texas in 1916; currently unknown
  Plenty Coups {Mountain Crow}; died 3 May 1932; currently unknown
  Texas Jack Crawford; currently unknown
  David 'Davy' Crockett; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
  General George Crook; currently unknown
  George 'Flatnose' Curry; shot by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, in 1900; currently unknown
  Major General George A. Custer; killed at the Little Bighorn, Montana, 25 June 1876; buried in West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York
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• Bill Dalton; currently unknown
  Bob Dalton; shot in Coffeyville, Kansas, 5 October 1892; currently unknown
  Emmett Dalton; in 1937; currently unknown
  Frank Dalton; currently unknown
  Grat Dalton; shot in Coffeyville, Kansas, 5 October 1892; currently unknown
  Lewis Dalton; currently unknown
  Littleton Dalton; currently unknown
  Delshay {Apache}; died 29 July 1874; currently unknown
  Henry Deringer; currently unknown
  Diablo {Cibecue Apache}; died 30 August 1880; currently unknown
  William 'Billy' Dixon, survivor of Adobe Walls and the Buffalo Wallow fights; Medal of Honor recipient; died of pneumonia, 9 March 1913; buried in Texline, Oklahoma; reinterred at Adobe Walls, Kansas
  Grenville Dodge; currently unknown
  Bill Doolin; killed in Lawton, Oklahoma, 25 August 1896; currently unknown
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• White Eagle {Gros Ventre}; died 9 February 1881; currently unknown
  Black Elk; died 1950; currently unknown
  James Earp; buried in the East Side Cemetery in Sacramento, California {courtesy Ferguson}
  Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp; died in Los Angeles in 1944; buried beside her husband.
  Morgan Earp; shot in the back in Bob Hatch's Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona, 18 March 1882; buried at his parent's home in Colton, California.
  Virgil Earp; died in Goldfield, Nevada, 19 October 1905, buried in River View Cemetery, 8421 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97219. {Call for information: (503) 246-4251}
  Warren Earp; killed in a saloon in Willcox, Arizona, 7 July 1900; currently unknown.
  Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp; died of natural causes in Los Angeles, 13 January 1929, later reburied alongside his third wife, Sarah, in the Hills of Eternity {Jewish} cemetery in Colma, California. Photo
  Charles Eastman; a Lakota {named Ohiyesa}born on the Santee Reservation in 1858; a month after graduating from medical school at Boston University, he treated the survivors of the Wounded Knee massacre at the Pine Ridge Reservation; died in Detroit, 9 January 1939; currently unknown Photo
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• Two Face {Ogallala Lakota}; hanged at Fort Laramie, May 1865; currently unknown
  Henry 'Rico' Fardan; presumed dead, somewhere in Northern Mexico; currently unknown
  John King Fisher; shot 11 March 1884 in San Antonio, Texas; currently unknown
  Big Foot {Minniconjou Lakota chief}; killed at Wounded Knee, Dakotas, 29 December 1890; currently unknown
  Black Foot (Ogallala Lakota); hanged at Fort Laramie, May, 1865; currently unknown
  Bob Ford; killed in Creede, Colorado, 8 June 1892; currently unknown
  Eddie Foy; currently unknown
  Mickey Free; currently unknown
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• Gall {Hunkpapa Lakota}; died 5 December 1894; currently unknown
  "The Three Guardsmen"; see Chris Madsen, Heck Thomas, and Bill Tilghman
  Pat Garrett; shot by Wayne Brazel near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on 29 February 1908; currently unknown
  Geronimo {Chiricahua Apache}; died 17 February 1909; buried in Apache Cemetery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (Reports are that his skull was stolen in 1917, perhaps by Prescott Bush and others, and now resides in the Skull & Bones 'tomb' at Yale University)
  Crawford 'Cherokee Bill' Goldsby; hanged in Fort Smith, Arkansas, by order of Judge Issac Parker in 1896; currently unknown
  Charles Goodnight; currently unknown
  Zane Grey; currently unknown
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• Yellow Hand {Cheyenne}; died 17 July 1876; currently unknown
  John Wesley Hardin; shot in El Paso, Texas by John Selman, 19 August 1895; buried in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso, Texas. {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
  Captain John Coffee 'Jack' Hays, Texas Rangers; died of natural causes in Piedmont, California, buried alongside his wife at Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, California 94611 {Call for information: (510) 658-2588}
  B. Tyler Henry; currently unknown
  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok; shot in the back by John 'Jack' McCall while holding 'aces & eights' in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, 2 August 1876; buried in Deadwood
  Hi Jolly; see Haj Ali
  Dr. John H. 'Doc' Holliday; died of 'consumption' in the Hotel Glenwood, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 8 November 1887; buried in the Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs
  Tom Horn; hanged for murdering Willie Nickell in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 20 November 1903; currently unknown
  Crazy Horse {Ogallala Lakota}; died 7 September 1877; currently unknown
  Sam Houston; died in Huntsville, Texas, 29 July 1863; currently unknown
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• Bose Ikard (prototype for Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove); died in 1928; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Texas
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• Captain Jack {Modoc}; died 3 October 1873; currently unknown
  Frank James; currently unknown
  Jesse W. James; shot in the back by Robert 'Bob' Ford on 3 April 1882 in Saint Joseph, Missouri; currently unknown
  Robert James; currently unknown
  Jane, Calamity; see Calamity Jane
  Thomas Jonathan Jeffords ["the only white man Cochise ever trusted"]; died 14 February 1914; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Tucson, Arizona. {courtesy Ken Moshier}
  Joe, California; see Moses Milner
  Chief Joseph {Nez Perce}; died 21 September 1904; buried on the Collville reservation near Nespelem, Washington {courtesy Dennis Filipowski}
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• Ned Kelly; shot in Victoria State, Australia; currently unknown
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• Louis L'Amour, died 10 June 1988 in Durango, Colorado; buried there.
  Joe LeFors; currently unknown
  Two Leggins {Crow}; died 23 April 1923; currently unknown
  Meriwether Lewis; currently unknown
  Loco {Mimbres Apache}; died 2 February 1905; currently unknown
  Harvey 'Kid Curry' Logan; in 1904; currently unknown
  Harry 'Sundance Kid' Longabaugh; shot by policia, they say, in San Vicente, Bolivia in 1907 or 1908 or 1911; currently unknown
  Nat Love; currently unknown
  Oliver Loving (prototype for Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove); shot in the leg and died of gangrene 25 September 1867; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Texas. {courtesy Paul Colley}
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• Christian Madsen; died in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1944; currently unknown
  Mangus {Mimbres Apache}; died 9 February 1901; currently unknown
  Manuelito {Navajo}; currently unknown
  Edward J. Masterson; killed on 9 April 1878 in Dodge City, Kansas; currently unknown
  James Masterson; variously died of 'consumption' or was killed on 31 March 1895 in Guthrie, Oklahoma; currently unknown
  William Barclay {Bertholomiew} 'Bat' Masterson; died in New York City on 25 October 1921; currently unknown
  David 'Mysterious Dave' Mather; in 1886; currently unknown
  Henry McCarty; see W.H. Bonney
  Capt. L.H. McNelly; currently unknown
  Augustus McCrae; buried in "the stand of pecan trees by the creek that he and Claire discovered while out on a buggy ride", San Antonio, Texas. {courtesy Alan Questell}
  Brigadier General Thomas F. Meagher; commander of the Irish Brigade at Chancellorsville, later Territorial Governor of Montana; drowned in the Missouri River in 1867; currently unknown
  Stephen Hall Meek; currently unknown
  General Nelson A. Miles; currently unknown
  Moses Milner, known as California Joe; survivor of Adobe Walls; shot in the back by Tom Newcomb at Fort Robinson, Nebraska in 1876; originally buried in the Fort Robinson Cemetery, but moved to the Fort McPherson National Cemetery east of North Platte, Nebraska. {courtesy John Vera}
  Jeff Milton; currently unknown
  Samuel Montague; currently unknown
  Thomas Moran, painter; currently unknown
  Two Moon {Cheyenne}; currently unknown
  John Muir; currently unknown
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• Nana {Apache}; died 19 May 1896; currently unknown
  Roman Nose {Northern Cheyenne}; killed at Beecher's Island on 17 September 1868; currently unknown
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• Annie Oakley; currently unknown
  Ohiyesa; see Charles Eastman
  William Olds; died 27 June 1874 at Adobe Walls, Hutchinson County, Texas; presumably buried nearby.
  John B. 'Texas Jack' Omohundro; currently unknown
  Captain William Owen 'Buckey' O'Neill; killed by a sniper at San Juan Hill, Cuba on 1 July 1898; buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC. {courtesy J. Michael Bickley, great-grandson of Buckey}
  John Otherday {Wahpeton Lakota}; currently unknown
  Ouray {Uncompaghre Ute}; died 27 August 1880; currently unknown
  Bass Outlaw; shot in El Paso, Texas in 1894 by John Selman; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso. {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
  Commodore Perry Owens; died in Seligman, Arizona in 1918 or 1919; currently unknown
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• Pah-nayo-tisha {Cibecue Apache}, "Coyote Saw Him"; currently unknown
  George L. 'Butch Cassidy' Parker; shot by policia, they say, in San Vicente, Bolivia in 1907 or 1908 or 1911; currently unknown
  Judge Issac C. Parker; died 17 November 1896 in Fort Smith, Arkansas; currently unknown
  Quanah Parker {Comanche}; died 23 February 1911; currently unknown
  Peaches; see Pah-nayo-tisha
  Allan Pinkerton; currently unknown
  Etta Place; currently unknown
  John Wesley Powell; died in Haven, Maine on 23 September 1902; currently unknown
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• Matthew Quigley; presumed dead, somewhere in the United States.
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• Rainbow {Nez Perce}; died 9 August 1877; currently unknown
  Rain-in-the-face {Hunkpapa Lakota}; died 14 September 1905; currently unknown
  Baz N. 'Bass' Reeves; currently unknown
  Eliphalet Remington; died 26 December 1909; currently unknown
  Frederic Remington, painter; currently unknown
  Roy Rogers; died of natural causes; currently unknown
  John Ringo; shot [probable suicide] in Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona in 1882; currently unknown
  Dave Rudabaugh; beheaded in a cantina in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, 18 February 1886; currently unknown
  Charles M. Russell, painter; currently unknown
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• Satanta {Kiowa}; committed suicide, 11 October 1878; currently unknown
  Gen. Antonio L. de Santa Anna; currently unknown
  Maj. George W. Schofield; currently unknown
  John Selman; buried in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
  George Scarborough; currently unknown
  Christian Sharps; currently unknown
  Luke L. Short; died 8 September 1893 in Geuda Springs, Kansas; currently unknown
  Benjamin Singleton; currently unknown
  Charles Angelo Siringo; currently unknown
  Joseph A. 'Jack' Slade; City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, (Block B, Lot 6, Grave 7) {courtesy Doug Law}
  Erasmus 'Deaf' Smith; currently unknown
  Horace Smith; currently unknown
  Frank Stilwell; shot 20 March 1882 in Tucson by Wyatt Earp; currently unknown
  Dallas Stoudenmire; currently unknown
  Levi Strauss; died in San Francisco, 28 September 1902; currently unknown
  Sundance Kid
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• Iron Tail {Lakota}; veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; died 29 May 1916; currently unknown
  Taza {Apache}; September 26, 1876; currently unknown
  Henry A. 'Heck' Thomas; died 11 August 1912 in Lawton, Oklahoma; currently unknown
  Benjamin 'Ben' Thompson; shot 11 March 1884 in San Antonio; buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Austin
  William 'Texas Billy' Thompson; shot in Laredo, Texas in 1888; currently unknown
  William Mathew 'Bill' Tilghman; shot by Wiley Lynn in Cromwell, Oklahoma, 1 November 1924; currently unknown
  Tom Tobin; currently unknown
  Red Tomahawk; killer of {Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man} Sitting Bull; died 7 August 1931, currently unknown
  William B. Travis; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
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• Ulzana {Apache}; died 21 December 1909; currently unknown
  Colorado Charley Utter; buried Wild Bill Hickok; currently unknown
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• Victorio {Mimbres Apache}; died 14 October 1880; currently unknown
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• Capt. Samuel Walker, Texas Rangers; currently unknown
  Washakie {Shoshoni}; US Army scout; currently unknown
  Stand Watie {Cherokee}; died 9 September 1871; currently unknown
  Ella 'Cattle Kate' Watson; currently unknown
  John Wayne; died of natural causes; currently unknown
  Daniel B. Wesson; currently unknown
  Oliver F. Winchester; currently unknown
  Charles Windolph, Seventh Cavalry; last Army survivor of the Little Big Horn, where he won the Medal of Honor; currently unknown
  Chief Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 21 October 1882; currently unknown
  Sarah Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 16 October 1891; currently unknown
  Howling Wolf {Cheyenne}; died 2 June 1927; currently unknown
  Long Wolf {Lakota}, survior of the Battle of the Greasy Grass {Little Big Horn}, veteran of Col. Cody's Wild West Show; died of pneumonia. 11 June 1892; buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, England; disinterred and reburied in Wolf Creek Cemetery, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
  Yellow Wolf {Nez Perce}; died 21 August 1935; currently unknown
  Robert M. Wright, founder of Dodge City, Kansas; currently unknown
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• Thomas Coleman 'Cole' Younger; died of natural causes, 21 February 1916 in Lee's Summit, Missouri [his home town] in 1916; currently unknown
  James Younger; committed suicide in St. Paul, Minnesota, 19 October 1902; currently unknown
  John Younger; currently unknown
  Robert 'Bob' Younger; died in prison in 1889; currently unknown
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