Ed Schieffelin (English Wikipedia)

Beebe, Lucius Morris; Clegg, Charles (1955). The American West: the Pictorial Epic of a Continent. Dutton. "Whar you goin', Ed?" Al Sieber asked his friend who was saddling a mule, one day in 1877. "Just out a ways, looking for stones," Ed Schieffelin replied. "Don't you know this country's full of Indians? Only stone you'll find will be your tombstone." But Ed rode out, alone. Next day his mule suddenly shied at something white. Ed dismounted. There on the hillside lay the skeletons of two men! Moreover, their outstretched arms touched a pile of silver nuggets. Excitedly Ed looked around, found the source of the ore, then rushed home to file his claim. In a few months he was a millionaire and a city of 15,000 people had sprung up there, wildest, toughest boom town in Western history. Its name? Remembering his friend's prophesy, Ed Schieffelin grinned to himself on that discovery day and said: "I'll name this place Tombstone." Thus Tombstone, Arizona, and its newspaper The Epitaph, have become famous the world 'round.
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Moore, Richard E. (Winter 1986). "The Silver King: Ed Schieffelin, Prospector". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 87 (4): 367–387. JSTOR 20614087.

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"The Schieffelin Family". New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
Brown, Ron (September 10, 2010). "Oregon Trails: The story of Ed Schieffelin and Tombstone". Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
"Ghost Towns". Discover Southeast Arizona. Archived from the original on February 3, 2010. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
"The Story of Edward Schieffelin". March 24, 2008. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
"Solon Allis". The Mineralogical Record. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
"Tombstone's Riches". Legends of America. Archived from the original on January 8, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
"Our Little Corner of Cochise County" (PDF). Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
"A Brief History of Tombstone". Goose Flats Graphics. Archived from the original on June 25, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.

"The Schieffelin Family". New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Archived from the original on August 15, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.