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    Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson and 11 miles...
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  • Bisbee may refer to: Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee Blue, turquoise from Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee Deportation, the illegal expulsion of 1,300 miners from Bisbee...
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    deputized posse, who arrested them beginning on July 12, 1917, in Bisbee, Arizona. The action was orchestrated by Phelps Dodge, the major mining company...
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    The Bisbee massacre (a.k.a. the Bisbee murders or Bisbee raid) occurred in Bisbee, Arizona, on December 8, 1883, when six outlaws who were part of the...
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    Bisbee Blue or Bisbee turquoise refers to the turquoise that comes from copper mines located in the vicinity of Bisbee, Arizona. Bisbee turquoise can...
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    founded as an American smelter town, to treat the copper ores of nearby Bisbee, Arizona. The town is named after mining pioneer Dr. James Douglas and was incorporated...
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    eclipsed the precious metals with the rise of copper camps like Bisbee, Arizona, and Jerome, Arizona. The boom and bust economy of mining also left hundreds of...
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    Copper Queen Mine (category Copper mines in Arizona)
    copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. Its development led to the growth of the surrounding town of Bisbee in the 1880s. Its orebody ran...
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  • South Bisbee is a populated place situated in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, just north of the international border with Mexico. U.S. Geological...
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    Pete Spence (category Arizona pioneers)
    stealing mules and later a suspect in a stagecoach robbery outside Bisbee, Arizona. While a deputy sheriff, he pistol-whipped and killed a man for which...
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