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Central School Chosen for Renovation

31 August, 2010
By Charles August
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Central School will be renovated soon, thanks to funding from Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation.
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Violent Saturday Comes To Bisbee, Arizona – 1955

30 August, 2010
By Charles August
Violent Saturday Comes To Bisbee, Arizona – 1955

The most iconic of films shot in Bisbee is Violent Saturday, starring Victor Mature. Lee Marvin is a menacing thug, while Ernest Borgnine plays a pacified Amish farmer. Having Bisbee fill in for a Pennsylvanian town sort of works, but the train scenes are definitely filmed around Douglas, Arizona.
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Scenes From the Bisbee Deportation – 1917

29 August, 2010
By Charles August
Scenes From the Bisbee Deportation – 1917

On the morning of July 12th, 1917, a well armed band of vigilantes and lawmen rounded up and deported over one thousand members and sympathizers of the International Workers of the World, known as the IWW. Its members favored worker owned and operated industries, and proposed to abolish wages, while controlling industrial production through labor councils. Cochise County Sheriff Harry Wheeler met with Phelps Dodge officials, and secretly organized a round-up of strikers and sympathizers within two local groups: the Citizen’s Protective League, and the Worker’s Loyalty League. Their members supported the mining companies, while distrusting the IWW’s growing support among Mexican and other foreign workers. These photos are from the Walter Reuther Library, and the University of Arizona’s Bisbee Deportation Collection.
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Bisbee, Arizona in 1917

29 August, 2010
By Charles August
Bisbee, Arizona in 1917

A traveling writer, George Wharton James, wrote about Bisbee, Arizona in 1917, in a book called Arizona the Wonderland. This book is available from Google books. The following is an excerpt on Bisbee in 1917: BISBEE, THE COPPER MINING CITY OF THE SOUTH Why they called them the Mule Mountains no one knows, yet it so denominated in the bond — on the United States maps, and when the camp was first located, the settlement that sprang up around it was called Mule Gulch; and near by was Mule Pass.
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Bisbee, Arizona in 1908

29 August, 2010
By Charles August
Bisbee, Arizona in 1908

In 1908, Bisbee had three daily newspapers: the Bisbee Daily Review, the Bisbee Evening Ore and the Daily Square Dealer. Bisbee was modern and wealthy, compared to other communities in the West. Bisbee once had a Chinese community of workers that could work by day, but would be required by law to stay inside at night. These laws were common throughout Arizona and the West. In 1908, Bisbee High's Copper Chronicle was three years old. This excerpt is from The Story of Arizona, by Will H. Robinson. This book is available from Google Books:
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Bisbee – Between a Rock and a Hard Place

26 August, 2010
By Charles August
Copper Queen Glory Hole

Bisbee, Arizona is notable for many curiosities and tall tales, and Bisbee folks have often found themselves "between a rock and a hard place." This phrase originates in Bisbee, and has its beginnings in the labor struggles of the early twentieth century. The phrase described the circumstances of the workers of Bisbee, who were both fighting the local mining companies, while trying to survive with their families.
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Hello Bisbee, Arizona!

23 August, 2010
By Charles August
Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen of the West

You are currently seeing a preview of the testing platform for a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP software server stack, known as a LAMP content management system. Linux is the operating system that serves the files through an Apache file server. The actual ...
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