Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers

by Ron Padgett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806137320
• ISBN13: 9780806137322
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"