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18) Tombstone
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America's Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, and with that strike, Tombstone was created. It soon grew to be a town of over 10,000 of the most infamous outlaws, cowboys, lawmen, prostitutes, and varmints the Wild West has ever seen. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral made Wyatt Earp and John Henry "Doc"...
19) Bisbee
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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,...
20) Fort Huachuca
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The history of Fort Huachuca, Arizona is presented through vintage photographs.
