The Earps Invade Southern California. Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica, And The Old Soldiers' Home

DON AND DAVID D. DEHAAS CHAPUT

Publication: University of North Texas Press, 2020, Denton

First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, titles stamped in silver on the spine, [4], xix [blank], 239 pp., preface, prologue, acknowledgments, frontispiece, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, epilogue, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. Tells the story of the Earp brother's involvement in illegal liquor sales at the Old Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, California, in the 1890's to the early 1900's. Thousands of veterans were earning monthly pensions in this home where alcohol was prohibited. Their father, Nicholas, was a resident at the Old Soldiers' Home. Enter two of the Earps ... Nicholas and son Newton, who were enrolled in the Soldiers' Home. Newton's far more famous half-brothers Wyatt and Virgil showed up from time to time, but the star of the operation was older brother James. Booze would flow, the pension money would be "dispersed about," and jails were sometimes filled, as the Earps and several other men on the make competed for the veterans' money. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 52121