"Cochise County was named upon its creation on February 1, 1881, for the famed Chiricahua Apache leader. The county was carved from Pima County, one of the four original counties in teh territory of Arizona. Tombstone was its county seat until 1929, but today Bisbee is the county seat. The area of this county 4,003,840. Although it is only ninth in size among the Arizoan coutnies, it is still the equivalent of Conneticut and Rhode Island combines. The county is a leader in mining and in livestock raising and other agricultural pursuits.
The history of Cochise County is one of the most interesting in the state, inasmuch as its remoteness from law and order at one time made it a haven for outlaws. This, added to the fact that Tombstone was the mining mecca of wealth seekers from 1879 for the next several years (and also the most cultured city in the entire West or Southwest), adds to the glamour of the Cochise County story."
Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1960.
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COCHISE (co-cheze) is derived from "cheis", an Apache word meaning wood
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