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Bisbee Urban Outpost on the Frontier
by Schwantes, Carlos A. (editor) and Tom Vaughan
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Tucson; (1992): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Quarto. 145(1)pp., illustrated with photographic images. Situated near the Mexican border in the southeastern Arizona, you iwll find the city of Bisbee. It gained prominence as a mining center around the turn of the century and by 1981 has produced almost eight billion pounds of copper. Bisbee is also a living museum that preserves its old majestic buildings and Lavender Pit mine, once an extensive copper kingdom. This work features one hundred historic photographs focusing on the boom years of 1880-1920,A fine bright copy bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering gilt,in a fine pictorial dust acket.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023313
- Title
- Bisbee Urban Outpost on the Frontier
- Author
- Schwantes, Carlos A. (editor) and Tom Vaughan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The University of Arizona Press
- Place of Publication
- Tucson; (1992)
- Keywords
- Mining Copper Urban Outpost Frotier
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mining; Arizona;
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