In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist was national news, with the subsequent manhunt, trial and executi
The Bisbee Massacre
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2010
- Category
- Fiction
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