Blood and Bullets: The Gunfight at OK Corral

The desert of southern Arizona is a place where the earth itself seems forged by fire and wind. The sun scorches by day, and at night the stars cut through the sky like shards of glass. To walk across that land in the late 1870s was to hear the rattle of mesquite branches, the mournful cry of coyotes, and the whisper of sand over stone. It was a land that dared men to tame it, though most who tried would be beaten down. Yet amid that hostile wilderness, a town called Tombstone was born—its name a warning, its promise a lure.

It began with a man named Ed Schieffelin, a prospector who wandered into the Dragoon Mountains in 1877. The soldiers at nearby Camp Huachuca warned him he’d find nothing but his own grave if he ventured into Apache country. They told him, “Ed, the only rock you’ll find out there is your tombstone.” But fate has a way of laughing at men’s warnings. Schieffelin struck silver, rich veins of it, and what began as a lonely prospector’s gamble quickly turned into a fever. By 1879, thousands of men and women poured into the territory, chasing the kind of wealth that could change their lives—or destroy them. The camp was named after Schieffelin’s grim prophecy: Tombstone...

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