On Bended Knees The Night Rider Story

Few people realize today that the most sustained and violent uprising in America between the time of the Civil War and the race riots of the 1960s was a farm revolt in West Kentucky and Tennessee between 1904 and 1909. Here at last is the NIGHT RIDER STORY__the story of James B. Duke of North Carolina and Duke's astounding tobacco empire. The story of an ingenious country doctor who led a highly organized secret fraternity of farmers from Kentucky and Tennessee in a bloody revolt against the impoverishing tobacco prices of the "Duke Trust." The true story of America's past poverty, wealth, violence, greed, and heroism.