Leather Britches came up short on a draw

Some say the man known as Leather Britches Smith was the meanest man ever to set foot in Louisiana, a man you’d better not cross. Others say he was the hero of a fledgling Labor movement in the days when lumber mills offered about the only work available in southwest Louisiana and men had to take what they offered or do without. Leather Britches, was also known in Louisiana as Charles Smith and…

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