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The Earps Invade Southern California : Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and the Old Soldiers' Home /
Most readers of the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Ang...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most readers of the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Angeles. By 1900 a newly established Old Soldiers' Home was in place at Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and Los Angeles), with thousands of veterans earning monthly pensions, but in an environment where alcohol was prohibited. Enter the Earps and their ""blind pig"" (illicit alcohol sales) scheme. Two o. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 9781574418187 |