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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

A Brief History of Moonshine

 

Hauling homemade liquor. See: The Last American Hero (1973), The Moonshine War (1970), White Lightning (1973).

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71993/brief-history-moonshine

https://www.nps.gov/cuga/learn/historyculture/cuppcabin.htm

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/white-lightning-1973.html


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-moonshine-bootlegging-gave-rise-nascar-180962014/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonshine_War

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2014682032/


https://www.loc.gov/item/2002697174/

https://www.existentialennui.com/2014/04/the-moonshine-war-by-elmore-leonard.html



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_American_Hero

By FourFingerWu at 3/02/2021 12:21:00 PM
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