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"Atkinson's 1881 best-seller...featured himself literally chasing down offenders of the nation's liquor laws." - The Joy of Moonshine (2007)"Atkinson wrote about...tax collectors in Appalachia, on the trail of moonshiners who set up their stills in the region's cliffs, caves, and hollows." - Moonshine: A Cultural History of America's Infamous Liquor (2014)"Atkinson...pointed out that highlanders claimed...a free government...every citizen should be allowed to make a living...if he does not steal or trample on the rights of his neighbors." - King of the Moonshiners (2008)"For my material on traditional methods of making whiskey by hand in small batches, I drew upon...After the Moonshiners." - The Social History of Bourbon (2010)Why did West Virginia native, Atkinson, decide to become a revenue agent to shut down Appalachian moonshiners, at great risk to himself?George Wesley Atkinson (1845 – 1925) was the tenth Governor of West Virginia. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a judge on the Court of Claims, and Federal District Attorney. He was an Internal Revenue agent from 1879 to 1881; his success at interfering with moonshiners led to his appointment as a United States Marshall, serving until 1885.In his 1881 book "After the Moonshiners", which sold 11,000 copies, he relates his personal experiences in the manner of hunting down, the moonshiners of the mountains in the Southern States. He writes: "In January, 1880, a combined movement was made, by armed bodies of internal revenue officers, in nearly all the States from West Virginia southward, through the mountains and foot hills infected by illicit distillers, which resulted in the seizure of a large number of distilleries, and the arrest of several hundreds of individuals. ... There is scarcely a State south of the Ohio river which is entirely clear of moonshining; but it is principally carried on in the two Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, the two Virginias, and Kentucky. ... It was a great mistake that moonshiners were ever encouraged in their wicked works by any body in the localities where they operated. Such a course on the part of “good citizens,” newspapers, &c., caused them to hold out much longer in their defiance of law, than they would otherwise have done, had they met with no encouragement from the sources named. It is now agreed that such a course was a grave mistake, and the men who formerly were their strongest backers are now their most outspoken enemies. In most every section, the course of the law-breaker is now universally condemned. "
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- Title: After the Moonshiners, By One of the Raiders: A Book of Thrilling yet Truthful Narratives (1881)
- Author : George W. Atkinson
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