Author : Boyd Nicholl
Publisher : Cowboy Miner Productions
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931725101
Presents historic photographs of Bisbee from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, side by side with pictures of the same sites in the modern city, and accompanied by historical background.
Author : Richard Shelton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1992-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816512898
The author shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of the country--Bisbee, Arizona--with a narrative that reflects the history of the area, the beauty of the landscape, and his own life
Author : Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738599964
Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbee's seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizona's greatest copper camp.
Author : Jane Eppinga
Publisher : Destinworld Publishing Limited
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bisbee (Ariz.)
ISBN : 9780955928178
No two towns so personify the lure of the American West as much as Tombstone and Bisbee, Arizona. These boom towns welcomed the hard rock miners from Europe as they sought to extract the silver and later the copper from the earth. They provided at least the chance of getting rich, although few ever did. Today the towns are living museums. With remnants of the glory days of the Wild West on every corner, visitors can marvel at the locations immortalised in movies and folklore from the period, where characters such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the infamous Clantons once roamed. Through a series of detailed walks around Tombstone and Bisbee, accompanied by historic photographs from the Arizona State Archives, Arizona Historical Society, the Rose Tree Museum, and the Tombstone Courthouse, this book is the perfect companion to any visit. Jane Eppinga is a multi-award winning author of over 200 articles, and has written many books on Western history. She is a member of Western Writers of America and is an authority on southern Arizona. [Clear maps and walking routes through both towns [Historic archive photographs [Museum and attraction opening times [Historic eating, drinking and hotel suggestions [Useful travel information and events listings
Author : Mitchell Abidor
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1849353719
On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies, marched through the town, parked in the town’s baseball field, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert. The deportees were largely members or supporters of the radical IWW labor union and mostly foreign-born. The roundup and deportation was part of a xenophobic and anti-radical campaign being carried out by bosses and the government throughout the country in the early days of US participation in World War I. The mine owners then took control of the town and patrols prevented any union miners from even entering it. This little-known story is a shocking and fascinating one on its own, but the sentiments exploited and exposed in Bisbee in 1917 speak to America today.
Author : David Ryan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780977696819
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Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 1565794354
When paired with the historic images of 19th and 20th century photographers, Arizona photographer Allen Dutton's modern-day images reveal the changes that have shaped the state's landscape during the past 100-plus years. To illustrate these sometimes drastic, sometimes subtle differences, Allen searched the state to locate the precise spots from which to rephotograph the scenes captured by his predecessors--endeavoring to achieve the same angles, perspectives, and lighting as in the early photographs.
Author : Mike Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738596434
If there is a place where the ghosts of baseball players come at night to relive their glory days, it is Warren Ballpark in the old copper-mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Warren Ballpark has been in use as a sports facility since 1909--longer than any other ballpark in the United States. Some of the most colorful and notable figures in baseball history have stepped onto its field as barnstorming big leaguers or as minor-league players hoping to make their way up to the "Big Show." Several players implicated in the infamous 1919 "Black Sox" scandal played in an "outlaw" league at Warren Ballpark during the 1920s. In 1917, it was the holding facility for 1,500 striking copper miners rounded up during the Bisbee Deportation. It is also the site of one of the longest-running and most bitterly contested high school football rivalries in America, between the Bisbee Pumas and the Douglas Bulldogs.
Author : David Grassé
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1476627355
In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist was national news, with the subsequent manhunt, trial and execution of the alleged perpetrators followed by newspapers from New York to San Francisco. The Bisbee Massacre was as momentous as the infamous blood feud between the Earp brothers and the cowboys two years earlier, and led to the only recorded lynching in the town of Tombstone--John Heath, a sporting man, who was thought to be the mastermind. New research indicates he may have been innocent. This comprehensive history takes a fresh look at the event that marked the end of the Wild West period in the Arizona Territory.
Author : Bill Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439136580
A sweeping account of civilization's dependence on copper traces the industry's history, culture and economics while exploring such topics as the dangers posed to communities living near mines, its ubiquitous use in electronics and the activities of the London Metal Exchange. By the author of Fools Rush In. 30,000 first printing.
