Sunday, March 3, 2013

Did you know that E.A.was arrested for kidnapping in 1919?


E.A. was one of the hundreds of Cochise County posse members involved in deporting/kidnapping (depending on your point of view) more than a thousand miners as Phelps Dodge began destroying the power of miners' unions in Arizona.  Here's his arrest record:

http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ccobisb/id/1080/rec/1

Here's a link to a 2011 article from the AZ Republic about the deportation/kidnapping:

http://www.azcentral.com/travel/articles/2011/08/17/20110817bisbee-deportation-1200-miners-shipped-by-train-new-mexico.html

2 comments:

  1. This is really interesting and timely from my perspective since I was just in Bisbee and learned about the 'Bisbee Deportation'.

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  2. hmm, I know someone else who was just in Bisbee!!

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