Revenuers

Wherever there were moonshiners in Appalachia, there were revenuers -- treasury agents -- trying to put them out of business. This is discussed by Horace Kephart in his 1913 book, Our Southern Highlanders. To read an excerpt from this book dealing with moonshiners and revenuers, and to see a picture of a working still:

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It is worth noting that Kephart's turn of the 20th century writings about Appalachia were in the same "local color" genre, so popular at the time, in which Will Allen Dromgoole penned her newspaper articles on Melungeons in 1890 and 1891.