Gary G Shattuck: 2 books
Green Mountain Opium Eaters
A History of Early Addiction in Vermont
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month....
Insurrection, Corruption & Murder in Early Vermont
Life on the Wild Northern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
During America's Early Republic, the pastoral villages and forests of Vermont were anything but peaceful. Conflict raged along the Canadian border, as international tensions prompted Thomas Jefferson to ban American exports to France and Great Britain. Some Vermonters turned to smuggling. Federal seizure...