In 1877 prospector Ed Schieffelin searched for silver in Apache land after being told he would only find his own tombstone, but he instead made a strike worth at least forty million dollars. The discovery drew miners and businessmen as well as gamblers, prostitutes, and gunmen to the new town. Its most famous episode came at the OK Corral on October 26, 1881, when the Earps fought the Clantons and the McLaurys in the most famous gunfight in western history. In 1882 the mines flooded and huge steam pumps were installed, but a fire in 1886 destroyed the pumps and operations ceased. The mines reopened in 1901, yet boiler problems and flooding again forced them to close. In 1929 the county seat moved to Bisbee, leaving the town's future uncertain until determined citizens promoted it as "the town too tough to die" and invited the public to celebrate its rowdy past. Tombstone continues to live off that unique and violent past.