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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 7, 2012
Caption: War in the Black Patch (Mural #3)
Additional Description:
Depicts early 1900s tobacco war in western Kentucky. Dark tobacco is the name for the black patch region of western Kentucky.

Portraits:

James B. Duke, owner of the tobacco monopoly;

Dr. David Amoss, a local country doctor known as “The General” by the Night Riders;

A Kentucky Night Rider militant masked farmer who rode by night to intimidate farmers;
Submitted: November 25, 2014, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p293253
File Size: 4.223 Megabytes

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