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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chaput, Donald (Autor), De Haas, David D., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Earp, Wyatt, > 1848-1929 > Family.
Soldiers' homes.
Prohibition.
Criminals.
Alcohol trafficking.
Criminels > Californie (Sud) > Biographies.
Alcool > Trafic > Californie (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Maisons pour anciens combattants > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Criminals > California, Southern > Biography.
Alcohol trafficking > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Prohibition > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Soldiers' homes > California > Los Angeles > History.
Southern California.
California > Santa Monica.
California > Los Angeles.
Sawtelle (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Santa Monica (Calif.) > History.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Praise for the book-
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: The Wandering Earp Band of Brothers
  • Chapter 2: The Birth of Santa Monica and the Old Soldiers' Home
  • Chapter 3: The Birth of Soldiers' City
  • Chapter 4: Malibu Attacks! The Earp Scheme
  • Chapter 5: Almost Paradise
  • Chapter 6: The Den of Evil
  • Chapter 7: Sawtelle
  • a New City
  • Chapter 8: The Earps Cometh
  • Chapter 9: Enter V.W. Earp
  • Virgil Joins the Revelry
  • Chapter 10: The City of Angels
  • Chapter 11: Exit Virgil Earp
  • Goldfield Beckons
  • Chapter 12: Fellow Sophisticates from the Wild West
  • Chapter 13: The Earps Lose the Battle of Sawtelle
  • Chapter 14: King of the Blind Pigs and the Sawtelle Social Club
  • Chapter 15: The Evolution of Sawtelle
  • Chapter 16: Santa Monica Accepts its Destiny: Tombstone/Wild West Connections
  • Chapter 17: The Earps Retreat
  • Chapter 18: In Perspective: A Family on the Move
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I: Some of the Other Soldiers
  • Appendix II: The Sawtelle Battle Earp Reserve Troops
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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