Logan and his twin brother Nolan were Clinch Mountain Sacketts, almost a different breed than us. They were rough boys, those Clinch Mountain Sacketts, right down from ol' Yance, who founded the line way back in the 1600s. He settled so far back in the mountains that the country was getting settled up before they even knew he was there.
Some of those Clinch Mountain Sacketts were Blockaders; least that's what they were called. They raised a lot of corn up in the mountains, and the best way they could get it to market was in liquid form. They began selling by the gallon rather than the bushel.
(from Lonely On the Mountain, yb Louis L'Amour)
It is interesting that in his definitive work about the hillbilly culture, Horace Kephart also listed the factor of ease of transportation as one of the main reasons that moonshiners stuck to their whisky trade. It could be that L'Amour got his information from reading after Kephart.
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