The only rock you will find out there will be your tombstone.

This quote is attributed to US Army Scout Al Seabour, and the man he said it to was another

scout, Ed Sheffelin.

After the Civil War, the two soldiers were tasked with exploring the Arizona Frontier,

where Sheffelin free-lanced on risky incursions in the Native American territory in search

of ore, leading to Seabour's grim exhortation.

But Sheffelin persisted, and after discovering silver deposits, he founded a Frontier town

in 1879, appropriating his comrades' warning to name it Tombstone.

Tombstone Arizona grew rapidly, swelling to an estimated population of 14,000 and less

than a decade, as prospectors and industrialists rushed in to exploit the newly-opened minds.

But with the rapid expansion came conflict and crime.

Working-class miners largely Confederate sympathizers from the south, clashed with a wealthy

northern businessmen who formed the town's managerial class.

And gangs of rogue cowboys carried out rustlings and robberies, as western marshals and

sheriffs were empowered to use violence to impose order.

The tensions poiled over on October 26, 1881, when an outlaw gang consisting of the McGlory

brothers, the Clayton brothers, and Billy Clayborn faced off against law enforcement, represented

by the URP brothers and Doc Holiday, in the gunfight at the OK Corral.

The bloody shootout lasted only 30 seconds, but still reverberates today as the foremost

representation of Frontier justice in the Old West.

Almost a century later, in 1973 in the North Carolina town of Fayette'sville, James

Maynard and William F. Carl opened a stake house with a name that was a nod to the infamous

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