Death in Briar Bottom – The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Sea…
Death in Briar BottomThe True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s\nAuthor(s): Timothy Silver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469682860, 978-1469682860\nSynopsis\nOn July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana, and listened to rock music as they anticipated the good times that lay ahead. Near midnight, the county sheriff showed up with six deputies, allegedly responding to a noise complaint. They were armed with pistols and five sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns, one of which discharged, killing a young man named Stanley Altland. To this d.
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