Dick Wharton

Dick Wharton, a male deputy sheriff in Cleburne County, Alabama, set out from Edwardsville with warrants in hand, going after a group of men the papers called wildcatters—illegal whiskey makers who worked the rough mountain country and treated the law like an enemy. He rode into a stretch of road about twenty miles northeast of town, the kind of place where the trees and ridges could swallow a man whole, and where word of an officer’s approach could travel faster than a horse.

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Deputy Sheriff Dick Wharton