Bisbee: a copper town first, last and always
Bisbee's Main Street, circa 1910. The official population that year was 9,019 but is thought to have been much larger.
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Bisbee was the most prosperous city in the new state of Arizona on Feb. 14, 1912. It retained its rough edges, however, and celebrated statehood in true mining-camp style - setting off 48 sticks of dynamite in a mining hole near its downtown.
