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This Three Gun Wilson temperance title includes lots of material about Delaware. Published online as an ebook by the Hathi Trust it was found through a search with the Digital Public Library of America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a visiting scholar and member of the speakers\u2019 bureau at the Delaware Humanities Forum, I lecture on several subjects examining the past in the First State.\u00a0 The one on temperance and prohibition has received lots of attention lately, as organizations invite me to outline historical attempts to regulate the consumption of alcohol.\u00a0 This subject often sparks a lively, engaging conversation about the \u201cnoble experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPass the Rum:\u00a0 The Rise and Fall of Prohibition\u201d explores the centuries-long attempt to regulate the consumption of alcohol from a Delaware perspective.\u00a0 It\u2019s a colorful period and we share the stories of rumrunners, moonshiners, bathtub gin, intriguing personalities, complicated First State Politics, organized crime, outgunned lawmen, and the temperance ladies.<\/p>\n

Three Gun (Harold D.) Wilson <\/a>was one of those intriguing personalities.\u00a0 A Federal Prohibition Agent, he was\u00a0sent here to try to keep the spigot turned off after local teetotalers demanded stronger enforcement. Hoping he would \u201cbe able to take the word bootlegger out of Delaware\u2019s dictionary,\u201d one Dover newspaper wished him well as he arrived.<\/p>\n

But his efforts \u201crocked the first state\u201d once he started swooping down on rum joints and raiding speakeasies while smashing stills and chasing rumrunners. After a 15-month stay in Wilmington, the orders came to move on to Nebraska.<\/p>\n

While participating in a thought-provoking discussion at a downstate organization recently, some of the audience had an interest in investigating temperance and prohibition more deeply, so I promised to share some virtual resources.<\/p>\n

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The Medical Heritage Library has epublished the title on Beer on the Internet Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Medical Heritage Library, a digitally curated collaborative among some of the world\u2019s leading medical libraries, provides free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine.\u00a0 Several early works on alcoholism and temperance are found in this virtual collection of rare books, pamphlets, and journals, which are representative of centuries of increasing knowledge.<\/p>\n

Google terms such as prohibition, temperance, alcohol, drunkenness and others.\u00a0 You will find plenty of texts from earlier times to help you with your examination, including titles as such \u201cThe Cold-Waterman or a pocket companion for temperance\u201d<\/a> by Doctor Springwater (1832).\u00a0 \u201cBeer, its history and its economic value as National Beverage\u201d <\/a>by F. W. Salem (1880) is another one.<\/p>\n

Three Gun (Harold D.) Wilson also published materials.\u00a0 One was \u201cDry Laws and Wet Politicians,\u201d <\/a>published in 1922.\u00a0 Another title with a strong Delaware perspective was \u201cDry Law Facts Not Fiction, 1890 \u2013 comparative facts \u2013 1931 sensational dry fact, Delaware fact finder.\u00a0 <\/a>It was published by the Press of Kells in Newark, DE. In 1931.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget the Wilmington Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Star<\/a>.\u00a0 The Google newspaper archive has made it available.<\/p>\n

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The Medical Heritage Library makes rare medical texts available.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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