Chasing the White Dog
Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine
-by Max Watman
Max Watman traces the popular stereotype of the moonshiner back to an 1877 issue of Harper’s Weekly, which sent an undoubtedly genteel New York writer on assignment to Kentucky to observe the strange specimen: “Clad in garments of butternut, sometimes yellow, oft-times brown, and occasionally blue jeans, and always homespun, with hands in pockets …the moonshiner on arriving in Louisville, where all of his kind are brought after their capture, waddles awkwardly through the streets, with an expression …
