The Seven Rivers Cemetery was always known as a boot hill graveyard full of bad men and outlaws "buried with their boots on" like William Johnson, who lost his head at dinner, along with other troublemakers, rustlers, desperadoes, gunslingers, Seven Rivers Warriors gang members, and all manner of other lost souls. But the reality was a lot more complicated. So join me for the sad story of a small town that rose and fell in Southeast New Mexico one hundred and fifty years ago.