Thomas Price, a 42-year-old man, set out before dawn with a small band of revenue officers and local helpers into the rough country outside Monterey, Tennessee, hunting the hidden stills that had become a quiet industry in the hills. Near four o’clock on the morning of July 20, 1901, the party—moving in the dim light toward the suspected operation several miles from town—was suddenly challenged at close range. Voices ordered the men to throw up their hands, and before there was time to sor
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