Going Back To Bisbee

Author : Richard Shelton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816512898
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Shelton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535035
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher in nearby Bisbee. Now a university professor and respected poet living in Tucson, still in love with the Southwestern deserts, Shelton sets off for Bisbee on a not-uncommon day trip. Along the way, he reflects on the history of the area, on the beauty of the landscape, and on his own life. Couched within the narrative of his journey are passages revealing Shelton's deep familiarity with the region's natural and human history. Whether conveying the mystique of tarantulas or describing the mountain-studded topography, he brings a poet's eye to this seemingly desolate country. His observations on human habitation touch on Tombstone, "the town too tough to die," on ghost towns that perhaps weren't as tough, and on Bisbee itself, a once prosperous mining town now an outpost for the arts and a destination for tourists. What he finds there is both a broad view of his past and a glimpse of that city's possible future. Going Back to Bisbee explores a part of America with which many readers may not be familiar. A rich store of information embedded in splendid prose, it shows that there are more than miles on the road to Bisbee.

Author : Ethel Jackson Price
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614261
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee written by Ethel Jackson Price and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Houston
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533954
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee '17 written by Robert Houston and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-husband—the Bisbee strike leader—and 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee, Queen of the Copper Camps written by Lynn Robison Bailey and published by Westernlore Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738599964
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee written by Annie Graeme Larkin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Boyd Nicholl
Publisher : Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781931725101
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee, Arizona, Then and Now written by Boyd Nicholl and published by Cowboy Miner Productions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780816525959
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Yard written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his life and work as a prison volunteer in Arizona where he set up creative writing workshops for the inmates.

Author : Mitchell Abidor
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353719
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'll Forget It When I Die! written by Mitchell Abidor and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Shelton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533997
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody Rich Or Famous written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century.