Infamous Tammany Hall Democratic boss of New York George Washington Plunkitt is famous for saying “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em.” After finishing Don Chaput and David D. De Haas’s The Earps Invade Southern California: Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and the Old Soldiers’ Home (University of North Texas Press, $24.95), I would argue (and I b

True West December 2020
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- A Dickens Christmas on the Frontier
- Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
- On the Trail to Texas Statehood
- ¿Quien Es? Billy the Kid vs Pat Garrett
- What History Has Taught Me: Gary Goldstein
- Motorized Posses, Deadly Dry-gulchers And Indian Tobacco
- December 2020 Western Roundup
- Fredericksburg, Texas
- The Battle Over Salt
- Shooting Back
- The Mystique of the Americas’ First People
- They Don’t Make ’Em Like They Used To
- Olive Johnson