FAIRBANK, ARIZONA

espite being the smallest of the satellite cities—Charleston, Contention City and Millville were the others—to sprout up around the mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Fairbank lasted the longest. Founded when Tombstone started to boom, Fairbank was sited on the north end of an old Mexican land grant, the San Juan de las Boquillas y Nogales, which was granted to Tubac presidio commander Captain Ygnacio Elías González and business partner Juan Nepomuceno Félix back in 1833. The grant, which followed the San Pedro River south to Charleston, was recognized by the United States in 1854 on finalization of the Gadsden Purchase. In 1880 George Hearst and partner George Hill Howard purchased