It wasn’t long before homesteaders, cowboys, speculators, prospectors, lawyers, business people and gunmen headed to the area. Word quickly spread about his silver strike. Taking the advice his fellow soldiers gave him, his very first mine was named The Tombstone. Fortunately, for Ed, he did not find his tombstone, but he did find something: silver. The soldiers told him that he wouldn’t find stones out in the wilderness and would only eventually find his own tombstone. During his stay, he would leave the camp to look for rocks within the wilderness despite the fact that fellow soldiers at his camp warned him not to. Ed was part of this mission and was staying at a place called Camp Huachuca (wa-chu-ka). At the time, there was a scouting voyage in Tombstone against the Chiricahua (chir-i-cow-uh) Apaches. In 1877, the City of Tombstone was founded by Ed Schieffelin.
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