Rotgut Rustlers by Erin H Turner

Rotgut Rustlers by Erin H Turner

Rotgut Rustlers takes us on a fascinating tour of an often overlooked era of the West, a span of more than half a century from the late 1800s to the 1940s--from a period when vast reaches of the frontier were still lawless, into and beyond the Prohibition years, which were a boon not only to Chicago mobsters but to bootleggers from the Mississippi to the Pacific. It brings together twenty-five true stories about the wild outlaws and wild towns of the West during these years--stories about bank and stagecoach robbers, cattle rustlers, smugglers, counterfeiters, gamblers, racketeers, bootleggers, and crooked politicians. You'll meet: Ned Christie, the proud Cherokee who resisted arrest in Oklahoma by holing up in his makeshift log fortress Lawrence Kelly, who smuggled everything from illegal immigrants to opium into Washington State Lou Blonger, the elegant Coloradoan swindler who made a huge fortune off poor suckers Stelle and Bennie Dickson, who did their best to become South Dakota's very own Bonnie and Clyde

Erin H. Turner is a writer and editor living in Helena, Montana. Her other books include More Than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women, It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and It Happened in Yellowstone. She has a degree in history and gender and women's studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and has traveled extensively throughout the West.

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ISBN 13	9780762755363
ISBN 10	0762755369
Title	Rotgut Rustlers
Author	Erin H Turner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	TwoDot Books
Year published	2009-09-18
Number of pages	200
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