The Line Riders: The Border Patrol, Prohibition, and the Liquor War on the Rio Grande

Lingua: inglese

Editore: TwoDot, 2022

1493055046 / 9781493055043

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New hardcover in matte case wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches) Includes B&W photo plates, maps, bibliography, and an index. 416 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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.

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Titolo
The Line Riders: The Border Patrol, Prohibition, and the Liquor War on the Rio Grande
Autore
Samuel K. Dolan
Editore
TwoDot
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Condizione
New
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1493055046
ISBN 13
9781493055043
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