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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 977
EAN: 9781933370378
ISBN: 1933370378
Label: Reedy Press
Manufacturer: Reedy Press
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 03, 2008
Publisher: Reedy Press
Sales Rank: 262820
Studio: Reedy Press
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Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall during prohibition days? A guided tour awaits the reader in Wetter than the Mississippi: Prohibition in St. Louis and Beyond, published by Reedy Press. Old newspaper stories and oral history accounts bring to life this fascinating period, when the St. Louis area was awash in saloons and scandals. Author Robbi Courtaway has uncorked vintage reserves of anecdotal stories and lively narratives that focus on the greater St. Louis area, and span a 150-mile radius into Missouri and Illinois: Boonville, Jefferson City and Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Nauvoo, Decatur, Springfield, and deep southern Illinois. A double-length chapter at the center of the book details the 1920s-era gangs who specialized in bootleg booze and bloodshed in St. Louis and southern and central Illinois. Also featured are the brewing and wine industries, law enforcement, elected officials, the Ku Klux Klan, home brewers and amateur bootleggers, nightspots around town, a failed whiskey-siphoning scheme, a high-profile beer protection scandal, historical background of prohibition and more.
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Wetter than the Mississippi: Prohibition in Saint Louis and Beyond is a close study of America's Prohibition era, with particular focus on the greater St. Louis, Missouri area, though true stories from a 150-mile radius (including Illinois) are also included. Vintage black-and-white photographs pepper this amazing history, which blends absorbing anecdotes seamlessly with an overall picture of the progression and ultimate demise of America's notoriously ineffective attempt to make alcohol illegal. ... Read More
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