Dark Fired-The Black Patch Tobacco Wars

[BayouGhost]

The Remarkable Story of the Black Patch Tobacco Wars (6 Photos) - https://archiveproject.com/the-black-patch-wars-kentucky-tennesee-dark-tobacco-1904-1910

An interesting article on the "Night Riders" and the "Dark Fired Kentucky Wars". I recently listened to a podcast on this subject and never knew this history before. The host doesn't really mention pipe tobacco at all except once and is a bit apologist about the sins of tobacco relating to his own use of snuff and mentions the health ills of smoking, but if you can get over yourself and plow through that 10 seconds or so and listen on, there are parts of an interview with the last surviving night rider at age 97 that are quite interesting. Part 2 has not been released yet, but I look forward to it.

 

[MisterBadger]

Great theme for a movie.

 

[georged]

... and is a bit apologist about the sins of tobacco relating to his own use of snuff and mentions the health ills of smoking, but if you can get over yourself and plow through that 10 seconds or so and listen on...

OR you can shake your head in disgust at the submissive, virtue-signaling weakness on display by an organism that was once referred to as "a man", and not contribute to its revenue stream as a categorical thing.

Just sayin'

 

[jpberg]

OR you can shake your head in disgust at the submissive, virtue-signaling weakness on display by an organism that was once referred to as "a man", and not contribute to its revenue stream as a categorical thing.

Just sayin'

Men can have vaginas, George. I’ve seen the science.

 

[brian64]

Men can have vaginas, George. I’ve seen the science.

Just a friendly fyi: it's improper to not capitalize The Science.

 

[jpberg]

Just a friendly fyi: it's improper to not capitalize The Science.

You are correct. I ask a thousand pardons.

 

[Briar Lee]

As my hair turns from gray to silver I’m ever more appreciate of my seventh grade teacher Miss Charlotte who taught all of us about the Black Patch Wars and many other like lessons about our history.

There are dozens of accounts of the Black Patch Wars.

Here’s a good one.

THE BLACK PATCH WAR - TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE

It was, The New York Times reported with alarm, the first military occupation of an American city since the end of the Civil War, some forty years before.

www.terrybisson.com

Missouri’s own night riders were the Bald Knobbers, still celebrated today at Branson.

Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks

My own mother, born in 1926, would read some horrible story of child abuse in the paper and exclaim, when those old Night Riders still rode there wasn’t nearly as much of that.

There’s a big spring on our farm where my father and other old timers much older than he was (born 1919) would regale me with stories about cutting switches and kerosene torches and muffled hooves, and they showed no shame about it.

History is what it is.

When those who have something feel threatened by others, they often go night riding to try and keep it.

The Bald Knobbers: 19th-Century Vigilantism in the Ozarks - Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

The Bald Knobbers, who mostly sided with the Union in the Civil War, were opposed by the Anti-Bald

brewminate.com

In the Black Patch Wars the threat was Duke’s trust buying practices.

In the Ozarks, it was newcomers who drank whiskey right out of the bottle in front of everybody and worked their women and children like field hands, and would whistle at school teachers, and other such crimes against the peace and order of the community.

 

[Briar Lee]

Smoking Pipes has covered the Black Patch Wars with this article.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/beyond-violence-the-sociocultural-and-economic-factors-that-enabled-the-black-patch-tobacco-wars

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

The Remarkable Story of the Black Patch Tobacco Wars (6 Photos) - https://archiveproject.com/the-black-patch-wars-kentucky-tennesee-dark-tobacco-1904-1910

An interesting article on the "Night Riders" and the "Dark Fired Kentucky Wars". I recently listened to a podcast on this subject and never knew this history before. The host doesn't really mention pipe tobacco at all except once and is a bit apologist about the sins of tobacco relating to his own use of snuff and mentions the health ills of smoking, but if you can get over yourself and plow through that 10 seconds or so and listen on, there are parts of an interview with the last surviving night rider at age 97 that are quite interesting. Part 2 has not been released yet, but I look forward to it.

This is awesome! I'd never even heard of it. I fancy myself quite the amateur historian, Tennessee history in particular, but I'm nowhere near as fancy as I thought I was! Gonna study up on this one!

I've lived in East and Middle TN, but never in the West, and the northwest part of the state in particular is probably least known to the rest of the state.

 

[BingBong]

So let me get this straight. The STG monopoly were offering pennies to tobacco growers and putting them in poverty?