After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona: Decline In Western Resource Towns

Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas-Tombstone and Jerome-historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself-the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by 1890. Jerome's copper deposits were mined for much longer, beginning in the 1880s and enduring ...