Illegal Alcohol
by Jim Davis
December 7, 2020 — The illegal purveyance of alcohol played a significant part in the first forty-five years of North Dakota’s history. The court dockets were filled with rum runners and moonshiners. Multitudes of ingenious stills, such as one cleverly hidden in a room dug under a pig sty, provided extra income for cashstrapped farmers during the dry years. Canadian whis…