'The Town Too Tough To Die', Tombstone was perhaps the most renowned of Arizona's old mining camps. When Ed Schieffelin, an ex soldier, came to prospect the area for silver and gold his comrades told him it would be his tombstone! He named his first claim 'tombstone' and soon the boom town adopted this name.
Millions for dollars in Silver and gold was taken from the mines, and the town became well known for its lawlessness and violence. The gun battle between Wyatt Earp and his brothers, against the Clanton brothers at the OK Coral was the climax of this violence.
The character of the town and many of its buildings have been preserved.
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