num_pages: 624
description: For 22 years Walker has been interviewing bootleggers, rumrunners and smugglers, as well as constables and border patrolmen. He has buried himself in national and local archives, read court cases and newspaper accounts of that fabulous Roaring 20s in California. He allows these people to tell their own stories in 624 pages of a beautilully bound book, with a glossary, six appendixes, endnotes, index and huge bibliography. The book benefitted from several local authors and historians who have added their specialities. Some features in the 30 chapters are moonshiners' recipes, drunk animals, robbin' hoods who stole from the alcohol rich to sell to the alcohol poor, prostitutes who enhanced their income by bootlegging, dry (prohibition) humor, rum war at sea--a war the Coast Guard lost, a border war, and airplane use for smuggling. Although the author tried to cover the whole state--an impossible job--the following counties have many Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Marin, Solano, Sacramento, San Joaquin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Monterey, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Kern, Inyo, San Bernardino, Plumas and Riverside. Over 2,000 names, many with addresses, make this a must for looking up California ancestors. Here are their stories, stories filled with humor, pathos, exaggeration and above human.
language: English
title: One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years
titlecomplete: One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Back Door Publishing