| Edition |
Illini books ed. |
| Description |
xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274). |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Wagle, Thomas Henry, 1886-1929.
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Wagle, Thomas Henry, 1886-1929. |
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Prohibition -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History.
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Prohibition. |
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Illinois -- Colchester. |
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History. |
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Liquor industry -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History.
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Liquor industry. |
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Colchester (Ill.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
0252023951 |
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0252068440 paperback |
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