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The headstone reads simply: *Dutch Annie, 1883.* Row 7, Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone. No surname — by local account, no one ever knew her by any other name. She ran the red-light district and, the story goes, grubstaked miners who came to her broke and desperate. By local account, more than a thousand people followed her coffin. Whether that number is exact hardly matters. The town showed up.
Quick facts
- ·Place-anchored at Boothill Graveyard (north edge of Tombstone, ~31.7186,-110.0699; refine to the Row 7 plot if a finer coord is needed -- the listed coord is the cemetery, not the exact headstone). DOCUMENTED via the Chamber's official Boothill page and named on the HMDB Boothill marker among notable interments. Her real name is explicitly unknown -- DO NOT invent one. CAUTION / FLAG AS UNVERIFIED COLOR: the funeral-attendance figure ('more than 1,000 citizens') and the characterization of her generosity are presented by the Chamber as narrative without primary citation -- attribute as 'by local account' rather than asserting as hard fact. A separate Facebook source notes there may have been TWO madams called 'Dutch Annie' -- disambiguation flag for the writer. This candidate exists to anchor the district's human history to a real, visitable grave, NOT to glamorize.
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