Bisbee

Author : Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738599960

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Bisbee by Annie Graeme Larkin Pdf

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 : Ethel Jackson Price
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439614266

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Bisbee by Ethel Jackson Price Pdf

In the early 1900s, it was the largest city between St. Louis and San Francisco, bustling with the raw material of Wild West legends. Bisbee’s infamous Brewery Gulch once supported 47 saloons and was considered the “liveliest spot between El Paso and San Francisco.” By the 1970s, opportunists had relieved Bisbee’s Mule Mountains of billions of pounds of copper, 102 million ounces of silver, 2.8 million ounces of gold, and millions of pounds of zinc, lead, and manganese. The ore reserves were depleted, and when the last pickaxe struck plain old dirt, a mass exodus of miners collapsed the real estate market. But the lure of cheap land was a magnet for retirees, hippies, and artists. Boarding houses were converted into charming bed and breakfasts. Antique stores, galleries, cafes, and restaurants replaced the saloons. These days, a vibrant and eclectic community of ranchers, politicians, and free spirits; a well-preserved architectural and historic heritage; and “the most perfect year-round climate” make Bisbee, the county seat, a one-of-a-kind gem.

Author : Richard Shelton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0816512892

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Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Pdf

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 : Francine Powers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145619

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Haunted Bisbee by Francine Powers Pdf

Once the world's richest mining site, Bisbee is now one of the most haunted towns in America. From an entity that screams in anguish in Zacatecas Canyon to the glorious woman that floats through a wall in the School House Inn, spirits lurk around every corner. A firefighter still haunts his beloved Bisbee Fire Station No. 2, saving lives even after death, while a vengeful apparition keeps guard over his family plot at Evergreen Cemetery. Copper mining might have faded, but the memories of those drawn to Bisbee live on. Join Francine Powers, award-winning journalist, author and paranormal historian, as she uncovers the truth behind the old ghost stories of her beloved hometown.

Author : Francine Powers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439679500

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Wicked Bisbee by Francine Powers Pdf

Nicknamed the "Queen of Copper Camps" for having the richest copper mining operations in the world, Bisbee also was the scene of dastardly crimes. From drunken shootouts in saloons to strikers clashing with mining executives, the town's past is filled with stories of vengeance and street justice. The aftermath of an 1885 lynching led directly to the establishment of the Copper Queen Library, too late to deter the infamous Bisbee Massacre of 1883. In Lowell, an argument about an alleged affair ended in murder, while the Fly-Swatting Contest of 1912 encouraged a different kind of killing. Author, journalist and historian Francine Powers uncovers the real-life dramas of Wild West Bisbee.

Author : William Berry Lapham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783385499416

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Family Records of Some of the Descendents of Thomas Besbedge (Bisbee) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634 by William Berry Lapham Pdf

Author : Boyd Nicholl
Publisher : Cowboy Miner Productions
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1931725101

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Bisbee, Arizona, Then and Now by Boyd Nicholl Pdf

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 : United States. Congress House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Contested elections
ISBN : UFL:31262043082725

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Papers in the Case of Finley Vs. Bisbee by United States. Congress House Pdf

Author : Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : African Americans
ISBN : CORNELL:31924011851965

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Annual Report of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society by Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society Pdf

Author : Robert Houston
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816519392

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Bisbee '17 by Robert Houston Pdf

Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee, pitting a general strike against the largest posse ever assembled. Based on a true story, Bisbee '17 vividly re-creates a West of miners and copper magnates, bindlestiffs and scissorbills, army officers, private detectives, and determined revolutionaries. Against this backdrop runs the story of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, strike organizer from the East, caught between the worlds of her ex-husbandÑthe Bisbee strike leaderÑand her new lover, an Italian anarchist from New York. As the tumultuous weeks of the strike unfold, she struggles to sort out what she really feels about both of them, and about the West itself.

Author : Lynn Robison Bailey
Publisher : Westernlore Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023603881

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Bisbee, Queen of the Copper Camps by Lynn Robison Bailey Pdf

Bisbee, Arizona represents the emergence of industrialism in the Far West, the perfection of mining technology by Eastern capitalists to tap and exploit wandering ore bodies that were difficult to find and just as difficult to follow. Bisbee become synonymous with paternalism - a "White Man's Mining Camp," a feudal state in the desert, where labor and management eventually clashed head-on forever tarnishing the reputation of one of the nation's foremost mining companies and a number of distinguished families. The fascinating Bisbee story is told here.

Author : Maine. Adjutant General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Maine
ISBN : WISC:89077210193

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Supplement to the Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 and 1866 by Maine. Adjutant General Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082244132

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Minutes of the Universalist General Convention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Crawford
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0860914216

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Building the Workingman's Paradise by Margaret Crawford Pdf

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control and direct these forces.

Author : Antonia Casta_eda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803233843

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Gender on the Borderlands by Antonia Casta_eda Pdf

"Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.