The Bootlegger,9780252068447

The Bootlegger

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ISBN13: 9780252068447
ISBN10: 0252068440
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-05-13
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary

The true story of a struggling midwestern coal town and the small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career -- and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases -- had a profound and lasting impact on his community.

Author Biography

John E. Hallwas is a professor of English and archivist at Western Illinois University in Macomb.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Bootlegger's Funeral
1(16)
Coal and Community in Colchester
17(26)
Boomtown and Saloon Town
43(24)
Hard Times and the Marshal
67(22)
Struggling into the New Century
89(22)
Social Change and the Young Bootlegger
111(28)
World War I and the Bootlegger's Rise
139(20)
The Omaha Mystery Girl
159(16)
The Bootlegger and the Early 1920s
175(18)
The Mayor, the Bootlegger, and the Klan
193(22)
The Legendary Bootlegger
215(22)
The Killing That Finally Came
237(16)
Epilogue: The End of It All 253(16)
Sources and Acknowledgments 269

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