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History in Focus: Prohibition Sheriff
History in Focus
The Prohibition Era is full of violent stories of the Italian mafia and Al Capone all wrapped up in the glamour of jazz music, speakeasies, and cigarette smoking flappers. In rural Moffat County, the 18th amendment lost its big city aura and became entwined with our rough and tumble outlaw history.
The story of Prohibition in Moffat County revolves around one man: Tom Blevins. His tenure as Moffat County Sheriff from 1922 to 1934 spanned almost the entire Prohibition era. His one-man effort to enforce the “noble experiment” throughout the sagebrush and canyons of Moffat County was an impossible task as locals seized upon the economic opportunity to produce and sell illegal liquor.