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A History of Smuggling in Florida
9781596291997
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Put on your life vest and head out for this exciting, entertaining history of Florida's most-fascinating smugglers!
Think you're a smuggler? With that box of Cuban cigars or those unclaimed duty-free souvenirs from last summer's trip to Paris? Untaxed and untraced commerce-call it contraband-is a trillion-dollar-per-year global business. New technologies to discover and curb smuggling are met by equally well-equipped perpetrators, determined to stay below the radar.
With its long coastline, hundreds of remote landing strips and airports clogged with sun-seeking tourists, Florida is a superhighway of smuggling. It is easy to move illegal goods like weapons, drugs, slaves, exotic birds and flowers; all while avoiding the best efforts of U.S. and international customs authorities.
Who does this smuggling? Well one Florida governor and the wife of another, for starters. Hardscrabble commercial fishermen, Spanish explorers, Mafia mobsters, crew chiefs for fruit pickers, respected attorneys, just about everybody in Florida is a smuggler.
Smuggling touches every major episode in Florida's history; it's discovery and settlement, the Seminole Wars , and the Civil War were shaped by smugglers. The state's repeated land booms-including today's-are heavily influenced by smuggler profits. Today's business economy is warped by the manipulation of smugglers laundering their profits.
Stan Zimmerman means neither to vilify nor glorify these entrepreneurs. Nor does he intend to leave any stoned unturned or suitcase unopened. With stories of drug runners and prostitute pushers alongside the exploits and follies of Florida's elite, we are able to see why throughout its long history, Florida has always been a true smuggler's paradise.

Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen
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Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails:
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Gangs of St. Louis
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Notorious Kansas Bank Heists
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Oklahoma Scoundrels
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The Atlanta Ripper
9781609493813
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets.
Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women and mothers. Each murder attributed to the killer occurred on a Saturday night, and for one terrifying spring in 1911, a fresh body turned up every Sunday morning. Amid a stifling investigation, slayings continued until 1915. As many as six men were arrested for the crimes, but investigators never discovered the identity of the killer, or killers, despite having several suspects in custody. Join local historian Jeffrey Wells as he reveals the case of the Atlanta Ripper, unsolved to this day.

The Los Angeles Sugar Ring: Inside the World of Old Money, Bootleggers & Gambling Barons
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The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California
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Unsolved Arizona
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