
130 - The Bald Knobbers
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
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The Fucking Idiot
"They went from chasing off criminals to being the moral police," says historian Elmo Engelthron. "If some fellow had homesteaded a piece of land and his neighbor wanted it and his neighbor was a bald knobber, he could get the group to run them out." They also got in the middle of domestic situations dragging Horace Johnson from his home and beating him with sticks because he was quote, shiftless. A man was even warned that he had built a fence in a place the bald knobbers didn't like.
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