BACK TO COCHISE COUNTY
Everyone wanted a piece of the action.  They wanted their ‘fair share’.  They wanted the money.  Because
the Apache were “under control” it was easier for Mexican merchants to cross the border along specific trade routes that had been established a thousand years pervious (and are still in use today).  Tombstone had the money.  They could afford things.  They paid big money for things, at highly inflated rates.  The Mexican traders would make their way back into Sonora, rich, their pockets full of Tombstone gold.

Remember, we’re talking the 1881 equivalent of a TRILLION DOLLARS being ...   more »