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The Shootout in Clintwood, Virginia

Stories of Appalachia
Stories of Appalachia
Episode • Sep 3, 2016 • 9m
In 1926, Prohibition was in full force, and the Commonwealth of Virginia had prohibition enforcement agents employed across the state, looking for illegal liquor. In Dickenson County, Virginia, that man was James Sherman Mullins, who was on the trail of the Dickenson County Sheriff, Pridemore Fleming, on suspicions that he was helping local moonshiners and […]