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Stover
SkalefoNs
by Oren Arnold
"Whar you goin', Ed?" Al Sieber
asked his friend who was saddling
a mule, one day in 1877.
"Just out a ways, looking for
stones," Ed Schieffelin replied.
"Don't you know this country's
full of Indians? Only stone you'll
find will be your tombstone.'
But Ed rode out, alone. Next day his
mule suddenly shied at something white.
Ed dismounted. There on the hillside lay
the skeletons of two men! Moreover, their
outstretched arms touched a pile of silver
nuggets. Excitedly Ed looked around,
found the source of the ore, then rushed
home to file his claim. In a few months he
was a millionaire and a city of 15,000
people had sprung up there, wildest,
toughest boom town in Western history.
Its name? Remembering his friend's pro-
phesy, Ed Schieffelin grinned to himself
on that discovery day and said:
"I'll name this place Tombstone."
Thus Tombstone, Arizona, and its
newspaper The Epitaph, have become
famous the world 'round,
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