Synopses & Reviews
The true story of a struggling midwestern coal town and the small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career -- and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases -- had a profound and lasting impact on his community.
Table of Contents
Preface -- The bootlegger's funeral -- Coal and community in Colchester -- Boomtown and saloon town -- Hard times and the marshal -- Struggling into the new century -- Social change and the young bootlegger -- World War I and the bootlegger's rise -- The Omaha mystery girl -- The bootlegger and the early twenties -- The mayor, the bootlegger, and the Klan -- The legendary bootlegger -- The killing that finally came -- Epilogue : the end of it all -- Sources and acknowledgments.