Tombstone

Tombstone (pop. 1,632), city in southeastern Arizona, founded in 1879 after the discovery of silver veins in the nearby mountains. Once billed as “the town too tough to die,” Tombstone was one of the most notoriously lawless settlements of the American West. In Oct. 1881 Tombstone's O.K. Corral was the site of a famous gunfight pitting Wyatt Earp, 2 of his brothers, and Doc Holliday against a rival faction. Today Tombstone is a major tourist attraction and in 1962 was designated a national historic landmark.

See also: Arizona.