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Author : Richard Shelton
Release : 1992-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Going Back to Bisbee by : Richard Shelton
Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Richard Shelton. This book was released on 1992-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of a teacher and poet about his years in Southern Arizona, interwoven with descriptions of the area, its history, its people, and its climate.
Author : Richard Shelton
Release : 2016-10-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Going Back to Bisbee by : Richard Shelton
Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Richard Shelton. This book was released on 2016-10-01. 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 : Robert Houston
Release : 1999-01-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bisbee '17 by : Robert Houston
Download or read book Bisbee '17 written by Robert Houston. This book was released on 1999-01-01. 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-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 : Annie Graeme Larkin
Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bisbee by : Annie Graeme Larkin
Download or read book Bisbee written by Annie Graeme Larkin. This book was released on 2013. 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 : Laurel Speer
Release : 2015
Genre : American poetry
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Book Synopsis Going Back to Bisbee by : Laurel Speer
Download or read book Going Back to Bisbee written by Laurel Speer. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
