The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego

by Roger W. Lotchin

Book Overview

"Riders were very appropriate to a western war, but these horsemen could not have been more different. One group patrolled the oceanfront of 'The City' after dark. While the residents of the nearby Sunset District and Seacliff huddled around the radios in their living rooms, curtains pulled and blinds lowered, listening to war news or to 'One Man's Family, ' other residents rode the beaches. Mounted on their own ponies, the men of the San Francisco...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253215463
• ISBN13: 9780253215468
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher