Prospector Ed Schieffelin was making a joke…
September 21, 1877. Prospector Ed Schieffelin files a claim on a site in Southeast Arizona known as Goose Flats. But Schieffelin calls it something different–a joke, after somebody (perhaps legendary army scout Al Sieber) warned him that the only thing he’d find in those hills would be his tombstone. Indeed, Ed Schieffelin discovers Tombstone–and a fortune worth of silver.
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