"Last of the Vigilantes"
Memoir
By: Miriam E. Tefft (variant spelling, "Teft")
Date: February 2, 1982
Source: Tefft, Miriam E. "Last of the Vigilantes." Bisbee Deportation: Recollections. University of Arizona Library. Available online at http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/ (accessed June 29, 2002).
About the Author: Miriam E. Tefft was fifteen when her father, along with other armed citizens, rounded up and deported over a thousand copper miners—and other innocent citizens who were affiliated with them—from Bisbee, Arizona, to New Mexico on July 12, 1917. The Tefft family lived among Bisbee's elite and sided with the mining companies when the unionized miners went on strike.
Introduction
Mining and the American West have been intimately tied together since the discovery of California gold in the mid-nineteenth century....
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