“Judge Shaw hands bootleggers a nice, fat jolt!” proclaimed the Aspen Times on February 18, 1927. “Oh, mamma, Tuesday was a hard day for the heretofore saucy and nervy bootlegging gentry. Last Friday ...

A retired English teacher and author from southwest Iowa is releasing her third book, this time focused on Iowa’s underground moonshining industry during the days of prohibition a century ago. Ann ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A new “Bootleggers & Burnouts” self-guided drive trail will immerse visitors in the rich history of ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. – (WNTZ) – When Prohibition swept across the United States in 1920, outlawing the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages, it ushered in a clandestine era of ...

WILLIAMSBURG — While researching a historical novel, Ann Hanigan Kotz learned a lot about prohibition and bootlegging. Kotz paired that knowledge with her imagination and created a novel centered on ...

During Prohibition, bootlegging was big business in this corner of Northeast Florida, and moonshine stills were hidden all over, from the thickets of Palm Valley to the wilds of Clay County, from ...

The bandits. Desperados who terrorized Big Bend ranches and settlements. The bootleggers. The shadows of the Big Bend who played a deadly cat and mouse game with lawmen. The businessmen. Ranchers, ...

The mysterious tunnel unearthed by a construction crew in Atlantic Highlands last month, possibly a vestige of the Bayshore’s bootlegging heyday during prohibition, does not appear to be connected to ...

Author Ann Hanigan Kotz talks about moonshine in Iowa at Williamsburg Public Library April 2. (Winona Whitaker/Hometown Current) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread ...