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Going Back to Bisbee

By: Richard Shelton

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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.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816535035

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Early Bisbee

By: Annie Graeme Larkin, Douglas L. Graeme, and Richard W. Graeme IV

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Early Bisbee

By: Annie Graeme Larkin, Douglas L. Graeme, and Richard W. Graeme IV

Before Bisbee became a bustling mining camp, it was a haven to Native Americans for centuries. However, their presence brought the intrusion of army scouts and prospectors into the Mule Mountains. The coincidental discovery of vast mineral wealth at the future site of Bisbee permanently affixed the fate of the land forever. Rising from the remote desert was a dynamic mining city, a city that grew into one of the most influential communities in the West. Bisbee was unique in the Old West because of the mixed moral values. High society and the decadent underworld lived in a delicate balance, but a vibrant multicultural community was forged from these social fires.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467133523

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9781467133524

Mineralogy of Arizona

By: John W. Anthony,Sidney A. Williams,Richard A. Bideaux,Raymond W. Grant

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Mineralogy of Arizona

By: John W. Anthony,Sidney A. Williams,Richard A. Bideaux,Raymond W. Grant

Long awaited by professional geologists and amateur rockhounds alike, the new Mineralogy of Arizona is a completely revised and greatly expanded edition of a book first published in 1977 and updated in 1982. New material covers 232 minerals discovered in Arizona since the first edition, including 28 first identified in the state. Also new is a section on the history of Arizona mining and mineralogy, which provides context for understanding the significance of mineral discoveries and production since prehistoric times. For nearly 20 years, Mineralogy of Arizona has been respected as the definitive reference on Arizona minerals. Now completely revised and greatly expanded with breathtaking new color photographs, the third edition covers 232 minerals discovered in Arizona since the first edition, including 28 first identified in the state.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816534047

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9780816534043

Hard Places

Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts

By: Richard V. Francaviglia

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Hard Places

Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts

By: Richard V. Francaviglia

Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.

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University of Iowa Press

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0877456097

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The Truth about Wyatt Earp

By: Richard E. Erwin

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The Truth about Wyatt Earp

By: Richard E. Erwin

The Truth About Wyatt Earp is the result of extensive research done by the author, Richard E. Erwin. After retiring from his career as a Criminal Defense Lawyer, he took up the task of ferreting out the truth surrounding the life and times of Wyatt Earp. He presents here solid evidence, based on old newspaper accounts, public records, documents buried in museums, state and national archives and libraries and reports of other researchers, to substantiate his view of what he believes to be The Truth About Wyatt Earp. Did you know... That Wyatt Earp was once indicted for horse stealing (He was never convicted.)? That there were four witnesses who could have testified that Tom McLaury was armed at the commencement of the O.K. Corral fight? That both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday spent more than two weeks in jail in the custody of John Behan while the hearing on the O.K. Corral shoot-out was going on? The truth comes out in this illuminating essay on one of the most fascinating characters in history.

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iUniverse

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0595001270

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9780595001279

Saving the Best of Texas

A Partnership Approach to Conservation

By: Richard C. Bartlett

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Saving the Best of Texas

A Partnership Approach to Conservation

By: Richard C. Bartlett

With a deep belief in partnerships for conservation, Richard C. Bartlett, Chairman of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, explores the past and ongoing efforts of individuals and groups—private, public, federal, and state—to save the best of Texas' natural landscapes and the myriad species of plants and animals they support. Drawing on some 100,000 miles of backroads travel, Bartlett vividly describes many of the areas that, through a commitment to partnerships, have already been preserved in their natural state. Fine color photographs by Leroy Williamson provide a striking visual counterpoint to the text. These words and images give well-deserved credit to the people responsible for saving some of the best of Texas. They also highlight the need to continue to join together to preserve our natural environment so that the beauty and diversity we enjoy today will be available for future generations. It is the author's hope that Saving the Best of Texas will be a catalyst in that process.

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University of Texas Press

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0292792077

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9780292792074

Baseball Team Names

A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011

By: Richard Worth

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Baseball Team Names

A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011

By: Richard Worth

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.

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McFarland

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0786468440

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9780786468447

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Expanded Second Edition

By: Richard Porton

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Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Expanded Second Edition

By: Richard Porton

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism’s long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema’s predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zéro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052218

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9780252052217

You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up

By: Richard Hallas

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You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up

By: Richard Hallas

A bestseller when originally published in 1938, a lost noir classic given new life in this edition featuring an introduction from Matt Groening. A novel of luck and irony, You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up follows the wayward meanderings of a Depression drifter (Dick) as he bums his way from Oklahoma to Los Angeles in search of his son and runaway wife. There he commits one crime, plans another, and gets arrested for something he didn't do. He is befriended by characters as lush and crazy as L.A. Deco: Quentin Genter, film director, decadent, collector of beauty and poison. Mamie, an indestructibly loving divorcee. Patsy, who gilds her sandals with radiator paint and becomes an adored evangelist. And a procession of crooks, shysters, rueful temptors and loopy saints.

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Catapult

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0985035528

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9780985035525

Michael Vey 5

Storm of Lightning

By: Richard Paul Evans

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Michael Vey 5

Storm of Lightning

By: Richard Paul Evans

Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series! The Electroclan is on the run. The resistance movement has been compromised. The safe house has been destroyed. The voice is in hiding, and they have no idea if their families are alive…or dead. Meanwhile, the Elgen are on the move. They’ve launched a new assault on the small island nation of Tuvalu. If they are successful, it will be the first domino to fall as part of Hatch’s master plan to take over the rest of the world. But cracks are beginning to appear in the ranks of the Elgen elite, and while Hatch still rules with an iron fist, there are signs of dissent. If the Elgen are beginning to turn against each other, can the Electroclan find an opportunity to use this to their advantage? Or is it just a trap to destroy them once and for all? The stakes have never been higher, and Michael and his friends are about to be tested in ways they never imagined.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481444123

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9781481444125

It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

A New History of the American West

By: Richard White

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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

A New History of the American West

By: Richard White

A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboy herding the dogies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they have derived from their transformation of the land. Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labor history, as well as on more traditional western sources, It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own is about the creation of the region rather than the vanishing of the frontier. Richard White tells how the various parts of the West—its distinct environments, its metropolitan areas and vast hinterlands, the various ethnic and racial groups and classes—are held together by a series of historical relationships that are developed over time. Widespread aridity and a common geographical location between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean would have provided but weak regional ties if other stronger relationships had not been created. A common dependence on the deferral government and common roots in a largely extractive and service-based economy were formative influences on western states and territories. A dual labor system based on race and the existence of minority groups with distinctive legal status have helped further define the region. Patterns of political participation and political organization have proved enduring. Together, these relationships among people, and between people and place, have made the West a historical creation and a distinctive region. From Europeans contact and subsequent Anglo-American conquest, through the civil-rights movement, the energy crisis, and the current reconstructing of the national and world economies, the West has remained a distinctive section in a much larger nation. In the American imagination the West still embodies possibilities inherent in the vastness and beauty of the place itself. But, Richard White explains, the possibilities many imagined for themselves have yielded to the possibilities seized by others. Many who thought themselves cowboys have in the end turned out to be dogies.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806148993

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9780806148991

Circle H Ranch

On the Arizona Border

By: Richard Kohn

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Circle H Ranch

On the Arizona Border

By: Richard Kohn

Circle H Ranch, On the Arizona Border is the story of present day life on a southeastern Arizona ranch along the Mexican border. The ranch owner has to deal with his workers being shot at. Gangs are bringing drugs and weapons into the US. They will kill anyone that gets in their way. The rancher hires a part time forklift operator. He turns out to be able to do more than load and unload trucks. Can he save the people on the ranch? Why wont the government help? The news said that a military helicopter, on a training mission, crashed in a storm along the border. Did the storm cause the crash or did something else? Why arent the survivors talking? Did twelve men coming into the country illegally die in a car crash near Benson or did they die somewhere else ands the government just says thats where they died? How was this related to the ten illegals that died in a similar crash in New Mexico? What is the Mexican Army doing in Arizona in force? Why did the Mexican Federal Police chase a US citizen into Arizona from Mexico? Join Sam, his Auntie, Vegas, and Harold and find out the answers to these questions. Circle H Ranch All the shooting sequences in this book are as accurate as I can make them. All the guns used by the good guys I have access to. All the shots can be duplicated on paper targets. None of the shots or shooting sequences are difficult for anyone that has good shooting skills. The matches mentioned in the book really exist. Tuesday Night Steel has run continuously since 1982. The match currently draws one hundred and twenty to one hundred eighty shooters every Tuesday night. Any safe shooter can enter any of the matches after a brief class before the match. For more information on the matches go to www.riosaladosportsmans.com.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453562087

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9781453562086

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Dispatches from Arizona

By: Richard Grant

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A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Dispatches from Arizona

By: Richard Grant

The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona. When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in breathtaking mountain ranges that rise out of the desert like islands in the sky. Interspersed with these adventures are recollections of his previous stint in the state, including his friendship with cult writer Charles Bowden and years living off the grid with smugglers, dope farmers, and outlaws on the Mexican border. Ultimately, Grant arrives at the conclusion that Arizona has always been a scattershot improvisation, with bizarre and extreme behavior in its DNA. This book is an entertaining, illuminating, and essential guide to understanding modern America at its most overheated.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668011042

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9781668011041

Rogue Warrior: Blood Lies

By: Richard Marcinko,Jim DeFelice

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Rogue Warrior: Blood Lies

By: Richard Marcinko,Jim DeFelice

When the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL is kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico, Rogue Warrior Richard Marcinko and his band of Red Cell International warriors embark on a rescue mission during which they uncover a secret Hezbollah camp and an elusive surprise enemy.

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Macmillan

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0765325411

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9780765325419

Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

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Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382108526

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Book's by Richard Bisbee

Going Back to Bisbee

Going Back to Bisbee

Early Bisbee

Early Bisbee

Mineralogy of Arizona

Mineralogy of Arizona

Hard Places

Hard Places

The Truth about Wyatt Earp

The Truth about Wyatt Earp

Saving the Best of Texas

Saving the Best of Texas

Baseball Team Names

Baseball Team Names

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up

You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up

Michael Vey 5

Michael Vey 5

It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

Circle H Ranch

Circle H Ranch

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Rogue Warrior: Blood Lies

Rogue Warrior: Blood Lies

Chicago Census Report

Chicago Census Report

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