Few people realize today that the most sustained and violent uprising in America between the time of the Civil War and the race riots of the 1960s was a farm revolt in West Kentucky and Tennessee between 1904 and 1909. Here at last is the NIGHT RIDER STORY__the story of James B. Duke of North Carolina and Duke's astounding tobacco empire. The story of an ingenious country doctor who led a highly organized secret fraternity of farmers from Kentucky and Tennessee in a bloody revolt against the impoverishing tobacco prices of the "Duke Trust." The true story of America's past poverty, wealth, violence, greed, and heroism.