Carlo Brummet was a female deputy sheriff serving Harlan County, Kentucky, in the early years of the twentieth century. On Friday, July 26, 1907, she rode out from the town of Harlan toward the rugged country where Kentucky meets Virginia, tasked with carrying out a duty that was as dangerous as it was routine: serving a warrant on a man accused of seduction, a serious criminal charge at the time. The mountains around Harlan were remote and difficult, a place where law officers often had to trav
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