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Tombstone was home to more than 100 saloons, a multitude of eateries, a huge red-light district, a larger popular of Chinese, newspapers, churches, schools, and one of the original Arizona community swimming pools, which is still being used today.
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Tombstone, Arizona, one of the most lawless mining camps in the American West, was soon dubbed “The Town Too Tough to Die.” Ed Schieffelin. The mining camp was born when a prospector named Ed Schieffelin looked out on the mountains from where he stood at Camp Huachuca, Arizona.
- Gunfight at The O.K. Corral
- Tombstone in 1885 - as Described by Shorty Harris
- Post Boom Years
- From Mining to Tourism
Prior to the discovery of silver at Tombstone, Arizona was a remote and lawless territory. Bandits and horse thieves were common, and many of them were loosely organized into a gang called the Cowboys. The Cowboys considered a large area around Tombstone their territory, so when thousands of miners and prospectors started arriving in a short period...
Shorty Harris, discoverer of the famous Bullfrog district in Nevada, and ubiquitous Death Valley prospector, spent time in Tombstone in 1885. In a 1931 interview, just a few years before his death, Harris described Tombstone as he saw it. The following text is from that interview. “In ’85, I went from Frisco, now another ghost town, to Tombstone, a...
Most of what is known about Tombstone largely focuses on the discovery years of the late 1870s and the silver bonanza years of the early and mid 1880s when the city peaked with an estimated 10,000 residents. In contrast to other prominent mining cities from this era, very few photos exist of the city of Tombstone during its boomtown years. One of t...
Silver may have been the reason Tombstone was settled, but it was the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the OK Corral that would give the town an economic base well into the 20th, and then the 21st centuries. The first popular book about the gunfight was published in the 1930s, and many more books and movies about the event were made...
History of Tombstone, Arizona. Attracting hundreds of visitors a year stands the town of Tombstone, Arizona, located only 90 miles from Tucson. The small town was founded nearly 150 years ago by prospect minor Ed Schieffelin.
Tombstone is a historic city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1877. In 2020, 1,308 people lived here. References
Allen Street, Tombstone. Tombstone is a former mining town in Southeast Arizona. Along with Deadwood, South Dakota, Tombstone was America's most storied town in the wild frontier days.
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