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Imagining Tombstone : the town too tough to die /

When prospector "Ed" Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he'd find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West-a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCormack, Kara L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Colección:CultureAmerica
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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