They Made Their Own Law

About the Book

Bolivar Peninsula, at the entry into Galveston Bay, attracted a colorful parade of characters including pirates, military adventurers, smugglers, settlers and oil drillers. In isolated environs everybody did what they wanted, and for years there was only one sheriff who never arrested a soul except a girl who refused to dance with him. Old-timers add their escapades to the narration.

About the Author

Wiggins wrote They Made Their Own Law while managing family marshlands on Bolivar Peninsula, a remote Texas region. Continuing her interest in local history, she penned Torpedoes in the Gulf, describing German U-boat attacks in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II. Research in Germany for Torpedoes led to her third book, U-Boat Adventures, in 1999.