DCHP-3

whisky peddler †

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.

Quotations

1923
So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps. He knew all the thieves, 'rollers,' roughs, shell-game experts, whiskey-peddlers, and ladies of doubtful reputation by sight and most of them by name.
1953
The white population consisted of a handful of fur traders, frontier badmen, and a few vicious whisky-peddlers, with their rotgut and blaze-belly.