Discounting last week's cold spell, moving to Arizona was essentially a decision Smith made because of, well, weather.

"I was working on a job in Breckenridge, Colo., building a big resort there," Smith said. "It had 39 feet of snow that winter, and I decided I didn't need that snow anymore. That's how I ended up down here."

With four degrees construction wasn't Smith's main job.

"I started education in De Soto, Kan.," he said. "I always had a construction company on the side. You can't live on a teacher's salary back in the 60s."

After Kansas, Smith traveled to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

"I had a metal building franchise, and they needed me to go over and build 700 housing units," he said.

"That's how I started there, and it just evolved."

Smith returned to the states and earned a degree in education before becoming a principal in Wyoming.

He couldn't stay away from construction, becoming a superintendent for Elkhorn Construction.

Then he moved to Arizona to begin his development business.

Smith lives in Sun City, Ariz., but has a soft spot for Tombstone.

"It's a neat place when you walk out from one of the buildings at night and you look up and you see the stars and they're so clear," he said. "There's just a feeling about it."