Bisbee Queen Of The Copper Camps

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.

At the turn of the century, Bisbee, Arizona was one of the largest copper mining camps in the world. Located in the Arizona Territory, Bisbee soon became the "liveliest spot between El Paso & San Francisco," a true urban outpost on the frontier. Built to last by the mining interests of the day, Bisbee has been architecturally preserved since 1910. The photographic essay explores Bisbee as it was yesterday with thirty-four historic photos from the period of 1886 through 1937. Thirty-four accompanying photos taken from the exact location today complement the originals. Fortunately Bisbee has not been a developer's paradise & the results of this book document an amazing similarity in many of the scenes. Surely, there will never be another Bisbee. These photos will fascinate the student of architecture! Today Bisbee features the Queen Mine underground tour, the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum, a surface mine tour, & Historic District tours. So explore this wonderfully preserved copper mining town in our 64 page soft cover photo essay & then visit us in person! To order: Check or money order to BISBEE IMAGE, PO BOX 1145, BISBEE, ARIZONA 85603. $9.95 each plus $2.00 shipping & handling for up to 5 books. Arizona residents add 7.5 percent sales tax.

This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.

The theme of this book is one man's patriotism and service to his country. Follow Roy Hugh's life journey from a small boy in Bisbee to his retirement as Brigadier General in the Arizona NAtional Guard. Roy's journals, photographs, letters and postcards chronicle his love of his country and devotion to friends, fellow soldiers, family and people he met during his life.

The history of Bisbee, Arizona and surrounding communities is presented through vintage photographs.

"The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees. We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times. Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian ""removals,"" the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become ""true"" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden. By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world."

“Are you an American, or are you not?” This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries. It was in Cochise County that the Earps and Clantons fought, Geronimo surrendered, and Wheeler led the infamous Bisbee Deportation, and it is where private militias patrol for undocumented migrants today. These dramatic events animate the rich story of the Arizona borderlands, where people of nearly every nationality—drawn by “free” land or by jobs in the copper mines—grappled with questions of race and national identity. Benton-Cohen explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers. Racial categories once blurry grew sharper as industrial mining dominated the region. Ideas about home, family, work and wages, manhood and womanhood all shaped how people thought about race. Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for “Americans”? Why were Italian miners described as living “as no white man can”? By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-Cohen’s insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.