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The bootlegger: a story of small-town America
The bootlegger: a story of small-town America
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Hallwas, John E
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication Date
c1998
Language
English
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Preface
The bootlegger's funeral
Coal and community in Colchester
Boomtown and saloon town
Hard times and the marshal
Struggling into the new century
Social change and the young bootlegger
World War I and the bootlegger's rise
The Omaha mystery girl
The bootlegger and the early twenties
The mayor, the bootlegger, and the Klan
The legendary bootlegger
The killing that finally came
Epilogue : the end of it all
Sources and acknowledgments.
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Subjects
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Colchester (Ill.) -- History
History
Liquor industry
Liquor industry -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History
Prohibition
Prohibition -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History
Wagle, Thomas Henry
Wagle, Thomas Henry, -- 1886-1929
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9780252023958
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