Cochise County, Arizona
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Cochise County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache, who was a key war leader during the Apache Wars.
The art deco county courthouse in Bisbee
Cochise County in 1881
The Big Room in Kartchner Caverns
Fort Bowie site near Apache Pass.
Tombstone, Arizona
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Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin, a prospector in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the many boomtowns
Cochise County, Arizona
…on February 1, 1881, out of the eastern portion of Pima County. It took its name from the Chiricahua Apache war chief Cochise. The county seat was Tombstone until 1929, when it moved to Bisbee. Notable men who once held the position of county sheriff were Johnny Behan, who served as the first sheriff of the…
Tombstone in 2018
Ed Schieffelin in Tombstone in 1880
Tombstone in 1881 by C. S. Fly
Tombstone sheriff and constituents, an illustration from the March 1884 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine