“All you’re gonna find is your tombstone.” That’s what all of Ed Schieffelin’s friends said when he decided to go out to the Arizona Territory, but his friends would’ve gone bug-eyed for life if they had found as much silver as he did.

While he was hiking through the hills close to where Tombstone was about to be, he noticed an unusual patch of rock. He got out his pick axe and chipped off a chunk of rock and he saw his future in those rocks, written in veins of silver. Thus began Tombstone, a mining town in Arizona Territory.

The settlement was small at first, but then grew to a good size town. The town was a rich one, and a nice place, but every town has the good side and the bad side.

The Earps and Doc Holliday were clashing with the McLauries and the Clantons. Billy Clanton was yelling on October 25, 1861, that he would kill the Earps and Doc Holliday if they came near him. The next day would be Billy’s last day to live. The Earps decided they would “disarm” the McLauries and the Clantons. The sheriff tried to stop the Earps and Doc Holliday by saying he had disarmed all of them, but they pushed the sheriff aside and kept walking to the “O.K. Corral”. When they got there, Wyatt Earp shouted “You boys been looking for a fight for a long time! Now you’ve got it!” They all started to shoot. Ike Clanton ran to get a gun. It didn’t do him any good.

None of the Earps were killed and neither was Doc Holliday, but all but two of the McLauries and Clantons were killed in the fight. Both died of their wounds. Later all the Earps were shot at by a different gang. Virgil Earp was shot and killed while playing billiards at the town saloon. Morgan was shot in the leg walking across the street. Wyatt was also shot in the leg. Morgan later died, but Wyatt lived. Doc Holliday was later caught
by the police and questioned about Wyatt Earp’s current location. Doc Holliday said, “I’ll die first.” He later died of an illness. Wyatt lived a fairly quiet life after his gunfighting days, and died in 1929.