Thomas Price, a 42-year-old man, set out before dawn with a small band of revenue officers and local helpers into the rough country outside Monterey, Tennessee, hunting the hidden stills that had become a quiet industry in the hills. Near four o�clock on the morning of July 20, 1901, the party�moving in the dim light toward the suspected operation several miles from town�was suddenly challenged at close range. Voices ordered the men to throw up their hands, and before there was time to sort frie
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