When was Tombstone, Arizona founded?
A: in 1877 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County,
Arizona Territory.
It became one of the last boomtowns in what?
A: The American frontier.
The town grew significantly into the mid-1880s as the
local mines produced what?
A: $40 to $85 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver
district in Arizona.
Its population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in how
long?
A: Less than seven years.
It is best known as the site of what?
A: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
It draws most of its revenue from what?
A: Tourism.
It also houses the highest-rated what in the state of
Arizona?
A: Brewery.
The town was established on Goose Flats, a mesa above
what?
A: The Goodenough Mine.
In the mid-1880s, the silver mines penetrated what?
A: The water table and the mining companies made significant investments in
specialized pumps.
A fire in 1886 destroyed the Grand Central hoist and
the pumping plant, and it was deemed what?
A: Unprofitable to rebuild the costly pumps.
The city nearly became a ghost town, saved only because
it was what?
A: The Cochise County seat until 1929.
When Cochise County was formed from the eastern portion
of Pima County on February 1, 1881, Tombstone became what?
A: The new county seat.
On the evening of March 15, 1881, three Cochise County
Cowboys attempted to do what?
A: Rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying $26,000 in silver bullion.
Near Drew's Station, just outside Contention City, the
popular and well-known driver Eli "Budd" Philpot, and a passenger named
Peter Roerig riding in the rear dickey seat, were both what?
A: Shot and killed.
What did deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp, with his
temporary deputies and brothers Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp do?
A: They pursued the Cowboys suspected of the
murders.
That set off a chain of events that culminated, on
October 26, 1881, in what?
A: A gunfight in a vacant lot near, but not in or at, the O.K. Corral.
During the gunfight the lawmen and Doc Holliday killed
who?
A: Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton.
The gunfight was the result of a what?
A: A personal, family, and political feud.
Two months later, on the evening of December 28, 1881,
Virgil Earp was what?
A: Ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden
assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.
Although identified, the suspects provided witnesses
who supplied alibis, and the men were what?
A: Not prosecuted.
What happened on March 18, 1882, while Morgan Earp was
playing billiards?
A: He was killed by a shot that struck his spine, as Wyatt looked on.
Once again, the assailants were named but escaped
arrest due to what?
A: Legal technicalities.
Wyatt Earp, with warrants obtained via the U. S.
Marshal's Office, did what?
A: He led a posse on what became known as the Earp Vendetta Ride, pursuing
and killing four of the men they held responsible.
