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223 pages : illustrations, maps First published: 1980 Contents: 1: Windsor-Walkerville connection -- 2: Roadhouses -- 3: King Canada: Blaise Diesbourg's tales -- 4: Amiable giant of prohibition: James Scott Cooper -- 5: In the bad old days: father and son -- 6: King of the bootleggers: Fat Cecil Smith -- 7: Art Gignac: the gentleman bootlegger -- 8: Harry Low's millions -- Wimpy stays alive -- 9: When "bathtub gin" was called rattlesnake juice and jackass lightning -- 10: Assorted stories: whiskey slides, starting in the business at five, iron boxes under the river & the water highway -- 11: Battle of Old Crow and other tales: the story of Walter Goodchild -- 12: Kidnapping of Horace Wild -- Two-gun Hart -- 13: Officials on the fringe -- Izzy and Moe -- 14: Getting liquor to Chicago -- 15: Fighting parson -- Pussyfoot -- 16: Purple Gang's reign of terror -- 17: Rivals: the Licavoli squad Summary: A photographic history of the men and women who smuggled Canadian liquor to the United States during the 1920s