Coeur D'Alene

Coeur dAlene is a city on the north end of Coeur dAlene Lake a hundred miles from the Canadian border. In 1930 prohibition was in force and the mines to the east and logging camps to the south were filled with men who were paid on Saturday night and where a fellow was served at a bar if he was tall enough to order across it. Grag Bergman a widower and father of two was a banker in Coeur dAlene. Gary Madison brought whiskey across the border from Canada owned a few clubs supplied red-light establishments the police doctors lawyers bankers and private citizens.. This is a story of that special time of probation of Depression a time between world wars in that special part of the north Idaho where homesteads were still new and civilization as we know it today was only a dream.