“How can you destroy something that does not exist?”

During the Alaska Gold Rush there was no liquor in Alaska. According to the United States government, all liquor on its way north was removed from steamships in Port Townsend. What liquor ‘slipped through’ was confiscated by the United States Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard. So, technically, until the end of Prohibition with the 21^st Amendment, on December 5, 1933, there was no liquor in Alaska.

So what are these Deputy United States Marshals destroying in June of 1917 when liquor was legal in the United States?

The Human Face of the Alaska Gold Rush

https://youtu.be/Y7cqZpQMI_s

Why not take a ‘listen’ to the dark side of Alaska?

For free!!

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“How can you destroy something that does not exist?”

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