A rodeo champion from Palouse, WA, became a Hollywood stuntman just as "action Westerns" took off at the box office. Yakima Canutt could leapfrog onto a horse, fall off it, stage a wagon wreck or a fight, and usually as the double for a star. John Wayne studied Canutt, and modeled his famous walk and talk after him.
You've heard of moonshine, but what about bathtub sake? Prohibition couldn’t stop every drinking habit. One particular Japanese tradition never went dry.