Jane Eppinga
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Jane Eppinga's writing has received numerous awards. In 1999, she received the Arizona Press Women Communicator of Achievement Award. With more than 300 articles published, her material has appeared in Biology Digest, Arizona Sheriff magazine, Persimmon Hill, Arizona Capitol Times, Tucson Weekly, mehr anzeigen Good Housekeeping, Arizona Highways, American History, Arizona Daily Star, the Writer, and the Chicken Soup series. Her book Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point's First Black Graduate was presented to Pres. Bill Clinton on the successful appeal to have Flipper posthumously pardoned. She has done several books for Arcadias Images of America and Postcard History series. weniger anzeigen
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Tombstone (Images of America: Arizona) von Jane Eppinga
Tombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America's Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, and with that strike, Tombstone was created. It soon grew to be a town of over 10,000 of the most infamous outlaws, cowboys, lawmen, prostitutes, and varmints the Wild West has ever seen. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral made Wyatt Earp and John Henry "Doc" Holliday legendary and secured Tombstone's reputation as "The Town Too Tough to Die." In this volume, more than 200 striking images and informative captions tell the stories of the heroes and villains of Tombstone, the saloons and brothels they visited, the movies they inspired, and Boot Hill, the well-known cemetery where many were buried.… (mehr)
The communities that once surrounded the infamous Wild West town of Tombstone, including Dos Cabezas, Fairbank, Gleeson, Pearce, Courtland, Charleston, and Milltown, are now mostly ghosts of their former selves. These rich mining towns had promising futures when they were first established, but many experienced only fleeting boom times, like Courtland, a promising copper camp that survived only 12 years.
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