Spirits of Just Men Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World

Name: Spirits of Just Men Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World
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ISBN: 9780252078088

ISBN-10: 025207808X

ISBN-13: 9780252078088

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles D. Thompson Jr.

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Spirits of Just Mentells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "moonshine capital of the world." Charles D. Thompson Jr. chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far-reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Thompson, whose ancestors were involved in the area's moonshine trade and trial as well as local law enforcement, uses the event as a stepping-off point to explore Blue Ridge Mountain culture, economy, and political engagement in the 1930s. Drawing from extensive oral histories and local…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 4/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Conspiracy Trial in the Moonshine Capital of the World



Wettest Section in the U.S.A.



Appalachian Spring



Elder Goode



Last Old Dollar Is Gone



Entrepreneurial Spirits



Her Moonshine Neighbor as Herself



Murder Trial in Franklin County


Epilogue


Notes


Works Cited


Index