James Wright, a male town marshal in the small East Tennessee town of Rogersville, spent his final years enforcing the laws of a community that had grown up around its old courthouse and narrow streets, a place where tradition ran deep and where public order rested heavily on the shoulders of a few local officers. Rogersville, already one of Tennessee's oldest towns by the early 1900s, was changing with the new century, and like many communities of the era it faced the persistent problem of ille
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