ABSTRACT
The still was well hidden, placed deep in the woods and camouflaged by tree branches and boulders. Two men were busy filling jugs from the spout of the still. One man stood as lookout, his shotgun at the ready. They were all alert for the sound of snapping branches, the skittle of rocks, or any other noise that would warn them that someone was coming their way. They knew the revenuers had been in their county. He had to pay bail money to get out and bribe money to the judge. It was costly to get caught. Throughout rural America, scenes like this played out on a weekly basis. With the start of Prohibition, the department of the Internal Revenue Service was put in charge of enforcing the new anti-alcohol laws. Part of the problem was that there were far more people making and selling illegal alcohol than there were revenue officers.
