One interesting note for the history books that I saw for April 1st, and this is not even an April Fool's joke, or anything.
It was on this day back in 1877 that prospector Edward Schieffelin went looking for silver right in the San Pedro Valley. This he did, despite many feeling that he was going to fail, and that all he would find was his own tombstone.
That was apparently the origin of the rather odd, and somewhat unsettling, name for the small Arizona town that probably saw more strange Wild West history than any other single town in the United States.
My son and I visited Tombstone a couple of times, and so it seemed like something worth sharing here, on this anniversary of what came to be the birth of the town.
Discoverer of Tombstone begins prospecting 1877 - This Day in History - April 1st:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/discoverer-of-tombstone-begins-prospecting?fbclid=IwAR0VeGpIuPXQ_cvzIBSYw6wrixAPHsALo_pdcUcZNTOUgTQY_CotOLuAGdc
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