World War II would bring on a great expansion in both the output and method of copper mining with a shift from underground tunnels to an open pit mine which became the largest copper producer in North America. In 1996, that Morenci Open Pit Mine would set the world-record for mine production.
This book is a collection of stories dating from the time of the Apache wars up to the present. The authors write about Greenlee County, Arizona and the surrounding Southwest; a place steeped in history, where the romanticized stories of a Wild Old West were very real. Whether a history buff or not, the reader will find this book of 204 pages and 118 photos or drawings, 6x9 perfect bound, is a great read. Price: $24.95; add $4.50 for shipping. No shipping charge for 10 or more books.
This book traces the history of the area's mineral discoveries by cavalry troops in the 1860s, to when copper miners at the Morenci area mines worked with a shovel in one hand and a gun in the other to protect themselves from outlaws and from Geronimo's Apache band, and then on to the bad economic times of the Great Depression.
This book chronicles the organization that comprised the nucleus of weather forcasting pioneers as it pictures the adventures of a weatherman and his family as he is taken from the Army Air Corps, to the Air Force, to the Army Artillery and even to a memorable association with the Marine Corps. His sometimes humorous, sometimes deeply emotional duties take place in the Midwest, New England, Washington D.C., Saudi Arabia, Bermuda, and Vietnam.
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