Galeyville, on the eastern slopes of the Chiricahua Mountains wasn't much different from other tent camp mining towns in Cochise County. The community was born in 1880 when John Galey found silver deposits. Galey was from Pennsylvania and like most easterners, believed every coyote hole in southern Arizona was a potential bonanza, especially this one because it was only sixty miles, as the crow flies from Tombstone. He secured some financial backing and laid out a townsite.
Before long Galeyv
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