Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging & Smuggling from Colonial Times to Prohibition

by Edward Butts

What Great Lake was the hunting ground of a twentieth century pirate? Where did Canada's ""King of the Bootleggers"" end his days? Who was the only man Al Capone ever truly feared? Since early colonial times, the Great Lakes, the Upper St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain have been smugglers' highways. They have borne silent witness to trafficking of almost every commodity governments could tax or ban. Smugglers kept commerce alive in Canada in the early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882376919
• ISBN13: 9781882376919
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"