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History of Tombstone, Arizona ""The Town too Tough to Die," Tombstone was perhaps the most renowned of Arizona's old mining camps. When Ed Schieffelin came to Camp Huachuca with a party of soldiers and left the fort to prospect, his comrades told him that he'd find his tombstone rather than silver. Thus, in 1877 Schieffelin named his first claim the Tombstone, and rumors of rich strikes made a boomtown of the settlement that adopted this name" (www.cityoftombstone.com). "The Town site of Tombstone was laid out on March 5, 1879. At that time Tombstone had 40 cabins and 100 people" (www.americanwest.com). As of June 20. 1880, there were 3,000 people in Tombstone. In late 1881 "there was over 7,000 people in town and more gambling houses, saloons, and a larger "boothill" and "red light" district than any town in the southwest" (www.americanwest.com). The years that ensued were ones of violence and lawlessness....

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