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.
Allen Street today. One of the most
notorious streets in the old west is alive
and well in Tombstone. Throughout the
past 140 years it has survived two major
fires, the loss of the mining industry, and
countless violent encounters.
Each year many thousands of visitors
walk where old west heros and villians
lived, worked and fought.
From boomtown to bust this little city
earned its nickname, "The Town Too
Tough To Die".
