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149 pages : 28 cm Rum runners a prohibition scrapbook Foreword. Section one: rounders and rumrunners. 1. King Canada: Blaise Diesbourg's tales. 2. The battle of old crow and other tales -- the story of Walter Goodchild. 3. Assorted stories -- whiskey slides, starting in the business at five, iron boxes under the river. Section two: bylines about the bad old days. 4. Boozing in the dry days -- clippings about that era. 5. Being kidnapped by rumrunners -- Horace Wild. 6. Prohibition: the water highway -- by Ron Scott. Section three: the bad and the brash; Harry Low, Cecil Smith, Whitey Benoit and James Cooper. 7. Harry Low's millions. 8. Brains behind the bootleggers -- Fat Cecil Smith. 9. In the bad old days -- Vital and Whitey Benoit. 10. The amiable giant of prohibition -- James Scott Cooper. Section four: liquor flowed and the dice rolled. 11. The roadhouses. Section five: the law, the customs, the ticket collectors. 12. Officials on the fringe. 13. The fighting parson [Reverend J.O.L. Spracklin]. Section six: the purple rule of terror -- the Purple Gang of Detroit. 14. The Purple Gang: a Detroit gang that terrorized the liquor traffic, by Joseph Wolff. 15. Detroit's most famous

Author

Charles Henry Gervais

Publisher

Thornhill, Ont.: Firefly Books

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780920668085

Subjects

Social Science, History, Biography