So they started getting the attention of national newspapers, Shard Observer, New York Times, and all by these raids on the town.

Taking independent farmers out, flagging, of course, had lynchings going on throughout the south.

But when they started raiding these towns, like one of the headlines says, Kentucky town

raided and burned by night riders.

This is post-Civil War, and the North still kind of looked upon the South as being violent

anyway.

Around that time, we had Hatfields and McCoys, and Kentucky especially,

it's always had a reputation, dark and bloody land. It's always been a head of bloody history.

On this finale episode, the Tobacco Wars of Kentucky and Tennessee are in full swing,

and the stage is set for a showdown between the Tobacco Planners Association

who are the poor farmers, and the corporate giant, known as the Duke Trust, and their American

Tobacco Company. The players are as old as time. It's the rich versus the poor, but the difference

between the good guys and the bad guys

remains blurred. The region known as the Black Patch grows the finest dark-fired tobacco in the

world, but the struggle is much bigger than tobacco, and the tools of terror are arson,

beatings, and sabotage meant to impact the national economy.

But did it even really work?

I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one.

It reminded me we were going to one of these speeches somewhere years ago, and on the way

there, Paul said, you're not going to give them the whole ball of works are you i said what do you mean you know i mean tell the whole you're not

going to tell the whole story you know and then said well you know it's a little hard to

just tell in sound bites my name is Clay Newcomb, and this is the Bear Greece podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant. Search for insight in unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives close to the land.

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