The Earps Invade Southern California

Don Chaput is the author of Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer; The Earp Papers: In a Brother's Image; and co-author of Cochise County Stalwarts: A Who's Who of the Territorial Years. He lives in Pasadena, California. David D. De Haas, MD currently practices emergency medicine in Orange County, California. He has published many medical and Wild West-related articles. He resides in San Juan Capistrano, California.

"This is a significant contribution-a previously unexplored chapter of the Earp story. Chaput and de Haas reveal the trouble the Earps had walking the line between law, order, and respectability on the one hand, and the vices on the other. This is a case study of the moral debate that raged at the turn of the twentieth century over gambling and liquor-a time when men like the Earps were asked to choose between the codes they had lived by and organized demands for social reform." -Gary L. Roberts, author of Doc Holliday and co-editor of A Wyatt Earp Anthology "There is no other work dealing with the Sawtelle period of the Earps' lives. In essence this work is all new. I am especially pleased to see that in this work James C. Earp gets attention, as in most works his presence is hardly noted." -Chuck Parsons, author of Captain John R. Hughes and The Sutton-Taylor Feud "Authors Chaput and de Haas have mined an entire new Earp topic. . . . [I]n the few years the brothers and their father lived at Sawtelle the excitement of illegal activity was exhilarating. The authors have provided a serious yet sometimes humorous account of their search for the last bonanza." -Tombstone Epitaph