Sources Nancy Licht Miljanich and Golden Gate Conservancy. 2014. Alcatraz Escape Files: From the Official Records. San Francisco, Calif.: Golden Gate National […]
Lewis Redmond Stewart, Bruce, King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee
Sources Charles Foilas Stewart, Bruce E. 2018. Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia. Lexington, Kentucky: The University
Sources McKenzie, Trevor. Otto Wood, the Bandit. UNC Press Books, 17 Aug. 2021. Oxford Public Ledger, NC, Thursday, December 22, 1904, Page
About 4 pm on July 25, 1953, Lester Woodward, a 30-year-old truck driver, was found shot to death in the
Revenue officers knew there was a still near Hester & Thompson’s mill, in the northern part of Wake County, along
It was a rainy Friday night in February 1901 in the village of Emma, NC, three miles west of Asheville.
As you know, I spend a bit of time scouring Appalachian history books in search of extraordinary crime stories and
The September 29, 1882, New York Times carried the following item on the front page: NOVEL CAPTURE OF A MOONSHINER
I’ve been working on a quiz for a while now. The struggle is where you start and where you stop,
