Imagining Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

by Kara L. McCormack

Book Overview

When prospector "Ed" Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he'd find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West--a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomtown, in less than a decade Tombstone was fading into what, for the next half-century, looked more like a ghost town. How is it, Kara McCormack asks, that the resurrection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622233
• ISBN13: 9780700622238
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"