Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
Tucson; (1974): University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023349
Portrait frontispiece, 325pp., illustrated with photographic images. The spectacular rise and fall of William Cornell Greene; Copper king, cattle baron and promoter extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District. By age 46, he had built a muti-million copper enterprise, started an enormous lumber business, and accumulated nearly a million acres of ranchland on both sides of both sides of the boarder. When he was 53, his empire collapsed. A fine bright copy bound in green cloth lettered in light copper, in an unclipped near fine pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $75.00