Tombstone got its start when Ed Schieffelin set out to prospect the desolate hills east of the San Pedro River in 1877. Friends, worried about his safety, tried to talk him out of it. Army Scout Al Sieber supposedly told him point-blank that the “only rock you’ll find out there will be your own tombstone.” But Schieffelin had the last laugh, naming the town that sprang up around his fabulous silver strike “Tombstone.” The boom was on. The siren song of easy money attracted the usual
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