Author: Samuel K. Dolan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone “dry.” For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country’s thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol. On the US-Mexico border, a steady stream of black market booze flowed across the Rio Grande. Tasked with combating the liquor trade in the borderlands of the American Southwest were the “line riders” of the United States Customs Service and their colleagues in the Immigration Border Patrol. From late-night shootouts on the Rio Grande and the back alleys of El Paso, Texas, to long-range horseback pursuits across the deserts of Arizona, this book tells the little-known story of the long and deadly “liquor war” on the border during the 1920s and 1930s and highlights the evolution of the Border Patrol amidst the chaos of Prohibition. Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild.
The Line Riders
Author: Samuel K. Dolan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone “dry.” For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country’s thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol. On the US-Mexico border, a steady stream of black market booze flowed across the Rio Grande. Tasked with combating the liquor trade in the borderlands of the American Southwest were the “line riders” of the United States Customs Service and their colleagues in the Immigration Border Patrol. From late-night shootouts on the Rio Grande and the back alleys of El Paso, Texas, to long-range horseback pursuits across the deserts of Arizona, this book tells the little-known story of the long and deadly “liquor war” on the border during the 1920s and 1930s and highlights the evolution of the Border Patrol amidst the chaos of Prohibition. Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone “dry.” For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country’s thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol. On the US-Mexico border, a steady stream of black market booze flowed across the Rio Grande. Tasked with combating the liquor trade in the borderlands of the American Southwest were the “line riders” of the United States Customs Service and their colleagues in the Immigration Border Patrol. From late-night shootouts on the Rio Grande and the back alleys of El Paso, Texas, to long-range horseback pursuits across the deserts of Arizona, this book tells the little-known story of the long and deadly “liquor war” on the border during the 1920s and 1930s and highlights the evolution of the Border Patrol amidst the chaos of Prohibition. Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild.
The Line Rider
Author: K.S. Stanley
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719828112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
With his job as a line rider under threat, Mack Cambray hopes to settle down with his bride as a homesteader. However, in trying to solve the mystery of his wife's untimely death, Mack ends up in the middle of a violent range war.
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719828112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
With his job as a line rider under threat, Mack Cambray hopes to settle down with his bride as a homesteader. However, in trying to solve the mystery of his wife's untimely death, Mack ends up in the middle of a violent range war.
The Cowboy Encyclopedia
Author: Richard W. Slatta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Grub Line Rider
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780843960655
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collected in paperback for the first time are seven of L'Amour's finest stories of the Old West, all carefully restored to their original magazine publication versions. Includes Black Rock Coffin Makers and Desert Death Song.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780843960655
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collected in paperback for the first time are seven of L'Amour's finest stories of the Old West, all carefully restored to their original magazine publication versions. Includes Black Rock Coffin Makers and Desert Death Song.
Report of the Commissioner ...
Author: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description