1791

 

Started reading Hogeland's book yesterday. The "hook" that drew me in, I think, was this line in the prologue. It was in the fall of 1791, when "gangs on the western frontier started attacking collectors of the first federal tax on an American product, hard liquor." That and the fact that it was enough of a problem to cause George Washington to raise an army of 13,000 soldiers to put it down. Oh what a peace-loving people we Americans are! :-)