At the Dead Hours of Midnight: A Bloody Reign of Terror in the Great Smoky Mountains

by Stanford Johnson and Richard Way

Book Overview

The White Caps of Sevier County Tennessee were an extralegal vigilante group that dominated that county in the 1890s, through the corruption of the Justices of the Peace legal system. Prominent landowners hijacked the legal system by "organizing White Cap gangs," who were able to avoid prosecution because of the aforementioned corruption. The bloody reign of terror effectively ended when one wealthy Sevier Countian contracted the murder for hire of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BPGQ5TK3
• ISBN13: 9798218106942
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Richard Way
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"