Bisbee
- ISBN-10
- 1439642281
- ISBN-13
- 9781439642283
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-29
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Author
- Annie Graeme Larkin
Description
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.
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