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The Act of History: ‘Bisbee ’17’ is an Extraordinary Play on the Past as Present
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The Act of History: ‘Bisbee ’17’ is an Extraordinary Play on the Past as Present

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Christopher Campbell
Sep 06, 2018
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The Bisbee Deportation isn’t really taught in history classes. Not even locally. Maybe a couple sentences stating that it happened. That in the summer of 1917, a deputized posse in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, illegally rounded up and exiled more than a thousand workers and their supporters, carting them off by train to New Me…

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