Gary Dillard, the creator of this blog, has just published an hour-long audio CD “book” titled A Brief History of Bisbee. It is available online and locally at the Queen Mine Tour and Atalanta’s Music and Books.
This audio stems from a booklet Dillard first published in 1995 with the same title, but contains more than twice as much information. It take quite a bit of text to make up almost 60 minutes of talking!
A companion book is now being published, containing the text of the audio, more than two dozen photos, references, website links and other information that can’t be put on an audio disc.
This is the first of a series of audio books being published under the imprint of Western Audio History. The will concentrate first on Cochise County and then move into a somewhat broader geographic range, mostly in Arizona.
Titles now being prepared include The Bisbee Deportation and Cochise, the Greatest Apache. Research is being done on two more volumes, The Civil War in Arizona and The Buffalo Soldiers and the Mexican Revolution.
It is anticipated that each of these also will be accompanied by companion books with numerous photographs and other material.
Dillard also is bring back into print a book that was popular in years past: Bisbee’s Fabulous Queen, As a Working Mine and as a Tour. That is not scheduled to have an accompanying audio component.
The timing on future productions is about one every two months. Most will make use of the copious amounts of material Dillard already has researched and written, but some will break new ground to provide for interesting research.
To learn more about A Brief History of Bisbee and its contents, visit the Western Audio History website.
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Keep telling that history:
Read the novel, Rescue at Pine Ridge, “RaPR”, a great story of black military history…the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers.
How do you keep a people down? ‘Never’ let them ‘know’ their history.
The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry.
Read the novel, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, 5 stars Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the youtube trailer commercial…and visit the website http://www.rescueatpineridge.com
I hope you’ll enjoy the novel. I wrote it from my mini-series movie of the same title, “RaPR” to keep my story alive. Hollywood has had a lot of strikes and doesn’t like telling our stories…its been “his-story” of history all along…until now. The movie so far has attached, Bill Duke directing, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with…see imdb.com at; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925633/
When you get a chance, also please visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at; http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for Wells Fargo in Montana, in the 1890′s, “spread the word”.
Peace.