The 1908 Great Car Race | George Remus, The King of the Bootleggers

High Tales of History

It’s episode 87, our last one for season 3!
To end it on a bang, we are doing some adventure and true crime history! We are joined by Laurel’s husband, Kristian, back from Season One Episode 4 to hear about another wild race from history—the 1908 Great Car Race in which six cars went on a race from New York to Paris.

We follow it up with George Remus, known as King of the Bootleggers as well as quite possibly F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for Jay Gatsby! Remus was once a criminal defense lawyer who turned to bootleggers and used his smarts to run a huge bootlegging game in the Midwest with the aim of owning ALL the pre-Prohibition bourbon….that is until snitches and murder unravel him

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PzFS76T9lc "Behind the Headlights" The Speed Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/automobiles

https://thegreatestautorace.com/the-people/

https://www.buffalohistorygazette.net/2018/02/new-york-to-paris-great-auto-race-of.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/

https://ameshistory.org/tribunearchives/1908-new-york-paris-great-race#:~:text=The%20Great%20Race%20of%201908,12%2C%201908%20in%20Times%20Square

George Remus--

https://remusbourbon.com/

https://sciotohistorical.org/items/show/170

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remus

https://www.umw.edu/events/umw-localist/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby-great-lives-lecture-series/

https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/george-remus/

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