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Roy C. McHenry to Horace Kephart, December 23, 1918, page 1

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Roy C. McHenry to Horace Kephart, December 23, 1918, page 1

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  • P. 0. Box 126, Scranton, Pa., December 23, 1918. 1 Mr. Horace Kephart, Bryson City, N. C. Dear Sir:- I was pleased to hear from you again and hope that we can get together at Philadelphia and have that gun-gabfest. I shall have to go there before long for a conference with the United States Attorney and will try to make the dates coincide. What you said about the blockade runners down there reminds me of the situation which exists in the southern part of my territory, where they ship a good deal of booze into West Virginia. Early this month we caught two men with several thousand dollars worth of whiskey, who v/ere almost heartbroken at the loss. Ordinarily, though, I don't handle that branch of the work. One of my friends in the New York office used to work around your part of the country. His name is 'pink' McCarver and he hails from Nashville. If you have ever seen him you will remember him. A man described him once as a fellow who weighs about eighty pounds and talks like a nigger. For all his size, he is one of the handiest men with a gun that I know. In our service every man has the privilege of carrying the kind of hardware he prefers. Most of us use shoulder holsters, as they don't show that way. Usually when I am in polite society I carry a .35 Smith & Wesson, but for business purposes I wear a .45 automatic<j as the I. W. W. 's and Bolsheviki who infest the anthracite region aren't always mild and gentle. They are getting pretty well tamed now, though.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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