Rum Runners And Moonshiners Of Old Florida

Author : Robert Buccellato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781729616314
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida written by Robert Buccellato and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to one of the most colorful and captivating periods of Florida history, a time when the rebellious spirit of Old Florida challenged the federal government. When Prohibition ended legal production of spirits and ordinary citizens turned to a life of crime. Robert Buccellato the author of Florida Governors: The Lasting Legacies and Jimmy Carter in Plains, shines light on a forgotten time of bootlegged liquors, corrupt rural sheriffs, crafty moonshiners, and panhandle traditions that date back centuries.

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida written by and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to one of Florida's most colorful, violent, intoxicating, and fun chapters! Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida Volume Two: A Second Batch is the sequel to the acclaimed 2019 book, that showed the fun and inebriated side of the sunshine state's past. Released as part of a new Florida Squeeze book series, this new volume features new images, artwork, and cocktail recipes. Robert Buccellato is the author of seven books including Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida and Jimmy Carter in Plains.

Author : Robert Buccellato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781701809680
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida written by Robert Buccellato and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to one of the most colorful and captivating periods of Florida history, a time when the rebellious spirit of Old Florida challenged the federal government. When Prohibition ended legal production of spirits and ordinary citizens turned to a life of crime. Robert Buccellato the author of Florida Governors: The Lasting Legacies and Jimmy Carter in Plains, shines light on a forgotten time of bootlegged liquors, corrupt rural sheriffs, crafty moonshiners, and panhandle traditions that date back centuries.

Author : Sally J. Ling
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540204615
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Run the Rum In: South Florida During Prohibition written by Sally J. Ling and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the tricks of the trade: smuggling the liquor and evading the law. Learn of the dealings of the Real McCoy. In this history of Prohibition in south Florida, author Sally J. Ling explores the impact of bootleggers and moonshiners on Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties, presenting tales of rumrunning and lawbreaking as told through personal and written accounts."

Author : Frank W. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rum Runners written by Frank W. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick James
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550178423
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How written by Rick James and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We operated perfectly legally. We considered ourselves philanthropists! We supplied good liquor to poor thirsty Americans ... and brought prosperity back to the Harbour of Vancouver ...”—Captain Charles Hudson At the stroke of one minute past midnight, January 17, 1920, the National Prohibition Act was officially declared in effect in the United States. From 1920 to 1933 the manufacture, sale, importation and transportation of alcohol and, of course, the imbibing of such products, was illegal. Prohibition was already a bust in Canada and it wasn’t long before fleets of vessels, from weather-beaten old fish boats to large ocean-going steamers, began filling their holds with liquor to deliver their much-valued cargo to their thirsty neighbours to the south. Contrary to popular perception, rum-running along the Pacific coast wasn’t dominated by violent encounters like those portrayed in the movies. Instead, it was usually carried out in a relatively civilized manner, with an oh-so-Canadian politeness on the British Columbian side. Most operated within the law. But there were indeed shootouts, hijackings and even a particularly gruesome murder associated with the business. Using first-hand accounts of old-time rum-runners, extensive research using primary and secondary documentation, and the often-sensational newspaper coverage of the day, Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How sets out to explain what really went down along the West Coast during the American “Noble Experiment.”

Author : Eric Sherbrooke Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of a Rum-runner written by Eric Sherbrooke Walker and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667578
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumrunners written by J. Anne Funderburg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered by aircraft engines. They out-maneuvered the U.S. Coast Guard and risked their lives to deliver illicit liquor. Smugglers like Bill McCoy, the Bahama Queen, and the Gulf Stream Pirate, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Drawing on legal records, newspaper articles and Coast Guard files, this history describes how rumrunners battled the Dry Navy and corrupted U.S. law enforcement, in order to keep America wet.

Author : Cathy Salustri
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059658
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backroads of Paradise written by Cathy Salustri and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy, into the depths of Florida to reveal its splendor to the world. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, which included twenty-two driving tours of the state's main roads. Eventually, after Eisenhower built the interstates, drivers bypassed the small towns that thrived along these roads in favor of making better time. Those main roads are now the state's backroads—forgotten by all but local residents, a few commuters, and dedicated road-trippers. Retracing the original routes in the Guide, Cathy Salustri rekindles our notions of paradise by bringing a modern eye to the historic travelogues. Salustri's 5,000-mile road trip reveals a patchwork quilt of Florida cultures: startling pockets of history and environmental bliss stitched against the blight of strip malls and franchise restaurants. The journey begins on US 98, heading west toward the Florida/Alabama state line, where coastal towns dot the roadway. Here, locals depend on the tourism industry, spurred by sugar sand beaches, as well as the abundance of local seafood. On US 41, Salustri takes us past the state's only whitewater rapids, a retired carnie town, and a dazzling array of springs, swamps, and rivers interspersed with farms that produce a bounty of fruit. Along US 17, she stops for milkshakes and hamburgers at Florida's oldest diner and visits a collection of springs interconnected by underwater mazes tumbling through white spongy limestone, before stopping in Arcadia, where men still bring cattle to auction. Desperately searching for skunk apes, the Sunshine State's version of Bigfoot, she encounters more than one gator on her way through the Everglades, Ochopee, and the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters. Following the original Guide, Salustri crisscrosses the state from the panhandle to the Keys. She guides readers through forgotten and unknown corners of the state--nude beaches, a rattlesnake cannery, Devil's Millhopper in Gainesville--as well as more familiar haunts--Kennedy Space Center and The Villages, "Florida’s Friendliest Retirement Hometown." Woven through these journeys are nuggets of history, environmental debates about Florida's future, and a narrative that combines humor with a strong affection for an oft-maligned state. Today, Salustri urges, tourists need a new nudge to get off the interstates or away from Disney in order to discover the real Florida. Her travel narrative, following what are now backroads and scenic routes, guides armchair travelers and road warriors alike to historic sites, natural wonders, and notable man-made attractions--comparing the past views with the present landscape and commenting on the changes, some barely noticeable, others extreme, along the way.

Author : Deborah Smith
Publisher : BelleBooks
ISBN 13 : 1935661043
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Rain written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she's never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now her beloved parents have died in a plane crash, and Kara's learned a stunning truth. She was adopted. Her birth parents are Mac and Lily Tolbert. They live and work on a backwoods cattle ranch in northern Florida. Ranch owner Ben Thocco is running out of time and money. He's going to need a miracle in order to save the ranch and care for the likable crew of unusual hands he employs, including Kara's parents and his own fragile brother Joey. Kara, using a fake identity on the advice of her lawyer, gets a job at Ben's ranch in Fountain Springs, Florida, where her adventures include entering an unpredictable mare in a local horse show.