Booger Red Grave, Teller County, Coloradohttp://files.usgwarchives.org/co/teller/cemeteries/booger.txtDonated to the Colorado Archives by the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society, 11 September 2002Questions may be directed to: Cemetery Project, Pikes Peak GS, P.O. Box 1262, ColoradoSprings, CO 80901 See the USGenWeb copyright notice at the end of the file. ___________________________________________________________________Booger Red GraveBooger Red was a gifted horseman and cowboy who rode into the Fourmile area of Teller County about1915. He got his unlikely nickname from his thatch of red hair and the verb "to booger," a cowboy termdescribing a  horse shying or running wild. He worked on several Teller County ranches, including theWitchers' 76 Ranch and the Rolofsons' Oak Grove Ranch, where he met the charming daughter of alocal homesteader. Like many otherwise healthy young men of his day, Booger Red contracted Spanish influenza and died,at about age 22,  in the Cripple Creek hospital in the fall of 1918.His sweetheart, Ruth Hall, suggested he be buried near Texas Hill, a site in southwestern Teller Countywhere they both loved to watch the eagles fly. Since then, the peak has been renamed Booger Red Hill inhonor of the young horseman buried in its shadow.Musician Tim Martin spent much time with Ruth Hall in the 1990s, learning the story of her romancewith Booger Red and the tragedy of his untimely death. He wrote the story in the book "Booger Red"(self-published, 1997), from which she recorded selections before her death at age 97. Martin has alsowritten a musical stage play based on the romance.Martin believes Booger Red is the cowboy Albert Hunsberger who died of pneumonia in the CrippleCreek hospital on October 28, 1918. Nearly everything on the death certificate is labeled "unknown," soit's difficult to trace him further.Today Booger Red's grave is marked with stones, but no tombstone identifies the site, which is onprivate property, inaccessible to the public, probably in Section 30, Township 15 South, Range 70 West,near Booger Red Hill in southwestern Teller County.Martin's book "Booger Red" is available from the Cripple Creek District Museum, the Ute Pass CulturalCenter, and for $15, including postage, from the author at P.O. Box 7644, Colorado Springs, CO 80933.Phone: (719) 229-9147.   =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.