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McIlhenny's Gold

How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire

by Jeffrey Rothfeder

2007 251 pages eng

The story of the powerful McIlhennys of Louisiana, who turned hot peppers into a Tabasco fortuneAfter the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects. The South's economy in ruins and his millions of dollars in Confederacy cur…

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