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I have a long trail of praise for the American cowboy. Leafing through tattered pages of hand-written journals and dust-covered books; and wandering museums admiring masterworks of western artists, I looked beyond their golden frames as windows into America's past, and imagined what the restless spirit of the West was like one hundred fifty years ago for cowboys and the sunbonnets on the American frontier-a land once thought to be as far...
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Nicknamed the "Queen of Copper Camps" for having the richest copper mining operations in the world, Bisbee also was the scene of dastardly crimes. From drunken shootouts in saloons to strikers clashing with mining executives, the town's past is filled with stories of vengeance and street justice. The aftermath of an 1885 lynching led directly to the establishment of the Copper Queen Library, too late to deter the infamous Bisbee Massacre of 1883....
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