Raising a growing family that would include 12 children in the early Ozarks was a challenge for Harvey and Isabell McCoy during the early decades of the 20th century. But it was not one with which they were unfamiliar. Drought and Depression were additional burdens, but hardship seemed a birthright, not something to bemoan its companionship. There were more ways than one way to skin a cat, and making moonshine seemed a necessary and logical way to stretch a bag of cornmeal greater than a few pans of cornbread.
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