moonshiner

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Mr. Pappalardo has a novelist’s gifts for description and pacing, and his material—greedy entrepreneurs, crafty moonshiners, crooked politicos and jaded cops—is material any writer would welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Buford Pusser spent six years as McNairy County sheriff beginning in 1964, and aimed to rid McNairy County of organized crime, from moonshiners to gamblers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The midnight mob of 100 was composed of dozens of my relatives, both paternal and maternal, from poor country farmers and moonshiners to college-educated, white-collar townsfolk.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2018

By the middle of that decade it was moving from busting moonshiners in Appalachia to enforcing gun laws in U.S. cities.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2010

During the Civil War the cave was continuously resorted to by deserters, refugees, moonshiners, fugitives, and "food for powder, dodging the conscript."

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard