Arizona history -March 2128 Sunday, March 21 On this date in 1882, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and party left the town of Tombstone, never to return. On this date in 1890, General George Crook died. On this date in 1895, Navajo County was created out of Apache County. On this date in 1901, the Arizona Rangers were established by order of Governor Nathan O. Murphy. Monday, March 22 On this date in 1875, the Silver King Mine was discovered in the Pinal Mountains. The first ore taken from the mine was assessed at $4,300 per ton. On this date in 1906, a meeting of the Board of School Trustees addressed the “unbecoming conduct” of six teachers in the Tucson Public Schools. The teachers had gone on a Sunday picnic to Sabino Canyon at which they “drank beer and wine and smoked cigarettes.”