Bibliograph

Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula, booze & bootleggers on the border, Russell M. Magnaghi

Type

Label

Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula, booze & bootleggers on the border, Russell M. Magnaghi

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prohibition in the Upper Peninsula

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Russell M. Magnaghi

Sub title

booze & bootleggers on the border

Summary

Temperance workers had their work cut out for them in the Upper Peninsula. It was a wild and woolly place where moonshiners, bootleggers and rumrunners thrived. Al Capone and the Purple Gang came north to keep Canadian whiskey passing through Sault Ste. Marie to Chicago and Detroit. Federal enforcement agent John Fillion double-crossed both his office and the bootleggers. The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island survived due to gambling and fine Canadian whiskey brought in by rumrunners, sometimes assisted by the Coast Guard. Author Russell M. Magnaghi dives into the raucous history of Yooper Prohibition

Target audience

adult

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