DCHP-3

whisky smuggler

West, 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

1916
The north-west was a greater land than either. It was an empire of Indians, half-breeds, cowboys, furposters, mounted policemen, cart-freighters, dog-drivers, whisky-smugglers, and missionaries.
1955
These whisky smugglers didn't care about the effect of liquor on the Indians who, crazed with firewater, killed parties of white men and fought with each other.