What do NASCAR and The Whiskey Rebellion have in common?
Why, revenue agents and untaxed liquor, of course. Here’s some early history that Brian France doesn’t want you to know. As a schoolboy, one of the events of post-revolutionary U.S. history that stuck in my mind, and has to this day, was The Whiskey Rebellion. Now was this because of the unusual name, or was it the fact that it was about Revenue Agents and untaxed liquor, some things that sounded familiar to this southern boy? The Whiskey Rebellion was about the Wild West of its day. The early racers of NASCAR were cowboys of their day; cowboys of the open road and certainly a wild bunch. The more I learned about like the early days of NASCAR, the more it sounded like The Whiskey Rebellion. The Wild West that Hollywood has burned into our memory is of the mid-continent: wide plains, cattle drives and cowboys. The Wild West of the Post-Revolutionary United States was the Allegheny Mountains and the western lands beyond. This mountain area was settled by people of mostly English, Scots,
