The Lucky Cuss Mine

The story of rags-to-riches prospector Ed Schieffelin and his Lucky Cuss Mine is one of Arizona’s greatest Horatio Algier success stories. In 1877, after years of fruitless prospecting in Nevada, Montana and California, Schieffelin came to Arizona. He was not yet thirty years old but he looked closer to fifty. The hard toil and harsh climate had taken its toll on the incurable sourdough. His long, dark, unkempt hair hung down past his shoulders and his full beard was a tangle of knots. Heâ€