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The golden fortress : California's border war on dust bowl refugees / Bill Lascher.
"In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California’s state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter. Myths of the Golden State’s abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the Depression, but those who created those myths saw only invading criminal “hordes” that they believed just one man could stop: James “Two-Gun” Davis, Los Angeles's authoritarian police chief. The Golden Fortress tells the story of Davis’s audacious deployment of hand-picked armed police slamming California’s door on America’s Dust Bowl refugees and Depression-displaced migrants. It depicts the sometimes deadly consequences of law enforcement politicized and weaponized against the poor, even in remote places like Modoc County, where a sheriff’s opposition to the blockade inflamed an already smoldering feud between an itinerant newsman and a publisher obsessed with her California heritage"-- Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781641606042
- ISBN: 1641606045
- Physical Description: viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century. Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939. California > History > 20th century. California > Social conditions > 20th century. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Jefferson County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson County Library-Arnold | 979.4052 LASCHER (Text) | 30061100067244 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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