They Came to Jerome is the most comprehensive book about Jerome's history during the mining era. It chronicles the town's life from its beginnngs as a copper camp in the late 1800s through its mining heyday before the Great Depression. More than 15,000 people lived here during the boom years that helped dub Jerome as the "Billion Dollar Copper Camp." But the madams, miners, marshals, journalists, barmen and gamblers that the book describes caused it to be called the West's wickedest city. Originally published in 1972.