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That Old Devil Moon: Mining and Moonshining in the 1920's
Mining and Moonshine in the 1920's
In the tiny town of Barnham, Kentucky there were two ways to make a living - working in the coal mines or producing corn liquor. The miners were in the midst of a struggle to unionize the mines and the moonshiners were trying to adjust to the new laws making their occupation a Federal crime. The situation created some strange alliances. Elected officials that refused to enforce the laws; mine owners who employed armies of security people to keep their workers in tow; moonshiner’s wives who belonged to the Temperance Committee at church while their husbands' liquor stills were operating at peak production - even a Federal Government agency willing to poison the population to enforce the new laws.
If maintaining order among all that wasn't enough for the county sheriff, he was six years behind on the promise he made to his wife for their honeymoon vacation.
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In the tiny town of Barnham, Kentucky there were two ways to make a living - working in the coal mines or producing corn liquor. The miners were in the midst of a struggle to unionize the mines and the moonshiners were trying to adjust to the new laws making their occupation a Federal crime. The situation created some strange alliances. Elected officials that refused to enforce the laws; mine owners who employed armies of security people to keep their workers in tow; moonshiner’s wives who belonged to the Temperance Committee at church while their husbands' liquor stills were operating at peak production - even a Federal Government agency willing to poison the population to enforce the new laws.
If maintaining order among all that wasn't enough for the county sheriff, he was six years behind on the promise he made to his wife for their honeymoon vacation.
Click above to get your copy now!
94 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2016
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