Contention City

Contention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was occupied from the early-1880s through the late-1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory. Only a few foundations now remain of this boomtown which was settled and abandoned with the rise and fall of silver mining in and around the area of Tombstone.

Contention City in Southern Victory
When Jeb Stuart crossed the border from Sonora into New Mexico Territory, he chose Contention City as his target over Tombstone, because that's where the stamping mills and refiners for the silver ore were. However, after teaming up with the Apache leader, Geronimo, he was convinced to go after Tombstone instead.