Historic Knoxville News #2: The Defiant moonshiners

Here is the second episode in our podcast series based on readings of old Knoxville newspapers. This episode is titled "The Defiant Moonshiners" and is based on four articles (transcript here) published in various papers over several years, tracing the fate of one revenuer who was shot in an armed resistance of underground distillers. Robby Griffith reads the articles and McClung Collection Reference Assistant Danette Welch provides the historical context. The books she references are This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War and Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen: federal law enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893.

Special thanks for the music performed by Music Therapy, recorded at the Time Warp.

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