In 1877, prospector Ed Schieffelin filed his first claim in a silver mine that would become the infamous mining town of Tombstone. Ed, his brother Al and partner Richard Gird eventually filed more claims and opened the Lucky Cuss, Tough Nut and Contention mines, some of the richest strikes in the young Arizona Territory’s first two decades. Such riches attracted miners, gamblers, cowboys, entreprenuers and outlaws—like Wyatt Ea
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