On April 8, 1929, shortly after nine o'clock in the evening, in the quiet little town of Colchester, Illinois, a man named Henry Wagle, whom everyone called "Kelly," was shot dead on the street a few hundred feet from his front door.
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The Bootlegger: A STORY OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA
May 13, 1999, University of Illinois Press
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The bootlegger: a story of small-town America
1998, University of Illinois Press
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274).
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