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    April 2009

    This month’s feature: The Bad Boys of Appalachia

    King of the Moonshiners
    Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction
    With a Foreword by Durwood Dunn
    Lewis R. Redmond was an archetypal moonshiner. On March 1, 1876, the twenty-one-year-old North Carolinian shot and killed a U.S. deputy marshal who tried to arrest him on charges of illicit distilling. He then fled to Pickens County, South Carolina, where, [...]