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Prohibition—Part 2
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Karson, Lawrence |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | West of Detroit, the forty-ninth parallel became the contested Canadian-American boundary in lieu of the Detroit River and its associated waters. The borderline between Canada and the United States across the prairie is dominated by almost nine hundred miles of an artificial land division that offers no natural geographical barriers between the two countries. In other areas of the United States, natural barriers required smugglers to transfer cargo from a vessel to a vehicle or to transit remote, hostile terrain creating a point of weakness and an opportunity for exposure and apprehension. To smuggling traffic, the geography along the forty-ninth parallel offered no such threat. By simply driving a high-speed auto over the border and into the United States via a back road or across a farmer's field, the rumrunner limited his exposure to law enforcement along the frontier in the early years of $Prohibition.^{1}$ Book Name: American Smuggling as White Collar Crime |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2017-0-55983-8&isbn=9781003073185&doi=10.1201/9781003073185-8&format=pdf |
| Ending Page | 165 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| Starting Page | 138 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781003073185-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: American Smuggling As White Collar Crime History Exposure Detroit Offered No Forty Ninth Parallel |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
