Synopsis
This is a History of Brushy Mountain Prison from the Coal Creek War to its closing and finally becoming a tourist attraction. The home of James Earl Ray, serial killers Paul Dennis Reed, truck driver Bruce Mendenhall, and Thomas “Zoo Man” Huskey among others. A story beginning in 1892 involving the Coal Creek War and Brushy becoming a mining prison in 1896. History of the mines, the inmates and more. Stories of the strap used on the prisoners, the Wardens, The closing of the mines and becoming a maximum security prison in 1969 and continuing through the closing of the prison as well as it becoming a tourist attraction and distillery. I wrote it as fiction, yet the majority of it is true. This book is about the history from research and people that have been around Brushy for many years. I’m a former officer and not a writer by any means. It’s just pieces of history I have studied for years. Hope you enjoy the journey.
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