The bootlegger
Subtitle: a story of small-town America
By: John E. Hallwas.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Wagle, Thomas Henry, 1886-1929.; Prohibition -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History.; Liquor industry -- Illinois -- Colchester -- History.; Colchester (Ill.) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The bootlegger's funeral; title: Coal and community in Colchester; title: Boomtown and saloon town; title: Hard times and the marshal; title: Struggling into the new century; title: Social change and the young bootlegger; title: World War I and the bootlegger's rise; title: The Omaha mystery girl; title: The bootlegger and the early twenties; title: The mayor, the bootlegger, and the Klan; title: The legendary bootlegger; title: The killing that finally came; title: Epilogue : the end of it all; title: Sources and acknowledgments.