Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Packer was a good mining engineer with a speculator's itch. He had an unshakable belief in America, in progress, and in his own good luck. Like most people in Arizona of the '80s, he dreamed of striking it rich. His son Tommy heard him say that he would "rather not live at all than live a failure." But he never really expected to fail, and his dream came real when a crusty old prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer...
...Blue Chip is not so much a novel as a fictional memoir warmly evocative of another time. Author Rennie's granddad was a great plunger in Colorado silver; his bankruptcy in the panic of 1893 was "fabulous." Her dad, like Jim Packer, was a speculator in Arizona copper. Young Tommy Packer, who tells the story of his father's faith and failure, does it with a mixture of sympathy, skepticism and faith as authentic as it is engaging...
Author Rennie gets her Arizona landscape down effectively with a commendable minimum of adjectives; even that tired old setting for fiction, the boom town, is done with simple freshness. The Blue Chip ends neither happily nor unhappily, but inevitably. When a financial depression and uncontrollable underground water combine to ruin the mine, Jim Packer has to take a job in another town. But with the family packed and waiting to go, he saddles a horse and packs another for a trip into the hills to follow a hunch about an old, deserted gold mine. His parting words: "Goodbye, boys. Take...
...Wheel of Fortune. The young man who has undertaken this formidable task was born at Yorba Linda, Calif, to Hannah Milhous and Francis Anthony Nixon. When Dick was 13, his older brother Harold contracted TB. Hannah Nixon took him to Arizona where, on visits, Dick earned money as barker for a wheel of fortune carnival booth. In Whittier, Calif., where the Nixons had moved after their Yorba Linda lemon grove failed, Frank and the boys kept the home, grocery store and filling station going. After five years in Arizona. Harold died* and Hannah returned to Whittier, where she worked...
...Wesley P. Goss, 54, vice president and general manager of Arizona's Magma Copper Co., moved up to president, succeeding A. J. McNab, who became chairman. One of the West's top mining engineers, Goss bossed development of Magma's famed San Manuel mine, largest underground copper mine...