Tombstone, Arizona

In 1877, Ed Schieffelin discovered silver at a site where soldiers from Camp Huachuca warned all he would find was his tombstone. (That was a $30 million blunder on their part.) Local feuds later exploded in this boomtown, with the most notorious being the 1881 O.K. Corral shoot-out between the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday versus the Clantons and McLaurys. Mining operations began closing in the 1880s, with the town’s population dipping from 5,300 residents in 1882 to 849 in 1930. Known as th