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"Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In Oklahoma Tough, poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood "King of the Bootleggers."".
"Oklahoma Tough is also a history of the distinctive mid-twentieth-century Oklahoma milieu that made Wayne Padgett's life story possible. Ron Padgett brings this vanished world to life with candid and sometimes comic descriptions of criminal life. Particularly insightful and entertaining are interviews in which former bootleggers, family members, friends, and enemies speak openly about their lives.".
"Combining biography, personal memories, and a history of the times, Ron Padgett bases his story on interviews with police officers and with those who knew Wayne Padgett, whether friend, foe, or family. He also bases it on newspapers and library, historical society, school, medical, and police records (Wayne Padgett's FBI files run to 1300 pages), as well as on his own vivid memories of growing up with his charismatic father.
Twenty-one period photographs enhance the story of Oklahoma Tough."--BOOK JACKET.
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Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers
March 2003, University of Oklahoma Press
Hardcover
in English
0806135093 9780806135090
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OKLAHOMA TOUGH: MY FATHER, KING OF THE TULSA BOOTLEGGERS
January 1, 2003, University of Oklahoma Press
Paperback
in English
0806137320 9780806137322
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