Episode 181
Episode 181: The Bisbee Deportation, Part V: The Wobblies Are Not Coming Back
AZ: The History of Arizona podcast · AZ: The History of Arizona
June 3, 202429m 0s
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Show Notes
After rounding up a couple thousand of their neighbors and acquaintances during the morning of July 12, 1917, the citizens of Bisbee held them at a local ballpark before stuffing the majority into the cattle cars of an eastbound train. About 15 hours later, the deported men founxd themselves abandoned, cold, thirty and starving in the middle of New Mexico.