In order to tell a little of the story of the newspaper in the town that became known as “the town too tough to die,” I need to start with a bit of Arizona history.
Tombstone itself dates from 1877. Its founder was a man by the name of Ed Schieffelin. Schieffelin was traveling as a civilian scout with a column recruited in the Hualapai country near the Grand Canyon and under the command of Al Sieber, known as one of the greatest government scouts in the Apache campaigns of the Southwest. This group made their headquarters at Camp Huachuca, which was newly established, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeast Arizona.
Eastward across the San Pedro River, through hills that had been described as “sheer desert, tumultuously uplifted and set on edge” were hills of silver awaiting discovery. In time this was to become one of the continent’s richest treasures.
