In the winter of 1922, Federal Prohibition Agent Elmer Guy Cole, a 36-year-old man, found himself embroiled in a deadly conflict with a notorious family of moonshiners in the hills of Kentucky. His death on December 15th of that year was the culmination of a violent series of events that had begun only days earlier, painting a grim picture of the dangers faced by law enforcement during the era of Prohibition.
The saga began when another Federal Prohibition Agent, Robert Duff, was killed i
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