Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons

Everyone knows about the gunfight behind the O.K. Corral, but what was Tombstone really like? Hollywood got it wrong, and True West’s executive editor Bob Boze Bell touts this truer version as “a beacon in the darkest night.” When founder Ed Schieffelin scouted Arizona for silver, soldiers warned that he’d only find his own tombstone. Ed so dubbed the town that grew up around a vein of high-grade ore that netted nearly half a million dollars in eight months. For a decade, Tombstone be