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Raphael Pumpelly's Arizona: The Frontier Adventures of a Young Mining Engineer

Raphael Pumpelly's Arizona: The Frontier Adventures of a Young Mining Engineer

Storms, C. Gilbert

Paperback

Historical FiguresRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 162787903X
ISBN13: 9781627879033
Publisher: Wheatmark
Published: Jan 29 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Raphael Pumpelly came to the mountains south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1860 as a young mining engineer looking for adventure. He was just twenty-three years old and a recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Mining Academy in Germany.


During his time in the Southwest, Pumpelly learned how to mine silver in Arizona and how to survive in the lawless environment of the borderlands. He met miners, ranchers, soldiers, bandits, Mexican revolutionaries, and raiding Apaches in a territory where there was no law enforcement and no effective military force to oppose the attacks of hostile Indians. After he left Arizona, he became an internationally renowned geologist, a consultant to foreign governments on geology and mining, a pioneering researcher in geoarchaeology, and a professor of geology and mining at Harvard. But it all began in Arizona.

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