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In this category are two books on the Seminoles, several biographies, as well as Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida; Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers; Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-first Century; Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State; and The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan. After the Civil War new federal taxes on whiskey production in Arkansas led to violence between revenue agents and moonshiners. Essentially a form of tax enforcement, the crackdown on illegal whiskey stills wasn't Buford's favorite duty, and when possible he preferred to run the moonshiners out of his territory without really "lowering the hammer" on them. |
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