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The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees

By Bill Lascher
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$27.99
By Bill Lascher
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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 de...

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