Author: William Phipps BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Tombstone and Its Mines
Author: William Phipps BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Tombstone, A.T.
Author: William B. ShillingbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806153995
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tour-de-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons.
Tombstone's Treasure
Author: Sherry MonahanPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826341772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly. When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons and breweries. By July of the following year, the number of saloons in Tombstone had doubled. The most popular saloon games of the time were faro, monte, and poker, with some offering keno, roulette, and twenty-one. Monahan shares true tales about Tombstone's mining and gambling history and describes a different time and locale where wealthy businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows at the bar and gambled side by side. It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks. Tombstone actually had telephones, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! It is so contrary to the Hollywood version of the town . . . but it's absolutely true."--from the Foreword by Bob Boze Bell Read Sherry Monahan's interview on AMC on the Wild West and the film Wild Bill
Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945
Author: Raymond E. DumettPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754663034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammeled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among them the great mining tycoons, who constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation. This volume, which carries the epic story to the mid-twentieth century, provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining entrepreneurs, investors and engineers in shaping the economic and political map of the globe, in testing management techniques and in setting a vogue for extravagant displays of wealth among the world's rich.
After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona
Author: Eric L. ClementsPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 9780874179583
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by 1890. Jerome’s copper deposits were mined for much longer, beginning in the 1880s and enduring until the 1930s. But when the mining booms ended, each town faced its decline in similar ways. The process of decline was more complex than superficial histories have indicated, and Clements discusses the role of labor unions in trying to stave off collapse, the changing demography of decline, the nature and expression of social tensions, the impact on institutions such as churches and schools, and the human responses to continued economic depression. But bust involved more than a steady decline into ghost-town status, Clements discovers: the towns' remaining residents employed numerous strategies to survive and reduce household expenses. In the end, both towns reinvented themselves as late-twentieth-century tourist attractions.
The Mines Handbook
Author: Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
Author: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Some vols., 1920-1949, contain collections of papers according to subject.
Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
Author: American Institute of Mining EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mining engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Taste of Tombstone
Author: Sherry A. MonahanPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826344496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In this lively study, Monahan offers a brief history of Tombstone and the evolution of its increasingly sophisticated dining scene. She includes 140 recipes from the 1880s, most from Tombstone restaurants, so that readers may experience their own taste of Tombstone.University of New Mexico Press
Arizona, Utah, & NM Parks Guide
Author: Barbara SinottePublisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 1588430049
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Details of all the state and national parks. This describes them all, from the vast national parks to little-visited wilderness preserves. Facilities, hiking trails, fees, campgrounds, fishing, canoeing, history, nearby attractions, directions everything