Rum Runners Reign Supreme: Canada-U.S. Liquor Smuggling Epidemic

In the scorching summer of 1920, El Paso, Texas, was abuzz with news of a brazen bootlegging operation spanning the Canadian-U.S. border. According to customs officials, hundreds of men – many of them armed and desperate – were secretly smuggling liquor into the United States from Canada on a massive scale. The operation was so vast that even the seasoned veterans at the TSLANI POND customs office were stumped.