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Abstract Thursday morning, 12 July 1917, should have been like any other workday in Bisbee, Arizona. As dawn backlit the crest of the Mule Mountains surrounding the state’s premier mining city, the serpentine streets below should have echoed with the boots of several thousand men coming and going from the mines. The merchants of Brewery Gulch and other downtown streets should have been preparing for another day of brisk sales. It was wartime, and the city worked unceasingly to produce the copper so vital to communications equipment and munitions. Every rifle cartridge contained about half an ounce of the pure red metal. Copper would win the war.
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