Moonshine-enabling cow shoes

Thought Shrapnel

The Sunday Surfers (a name my group of friends give to ourselves when playing PlayStation) came across an abandoned moonshine still in the game Red Dead Redemption 2 last weekend. That possibly primed my brain to find this random article even more interesting than I did already!

Black and white photo of a man's shoe with carved wooden cow hooves strapped to the sole, used by Prohibition-era moonshiners to disguise their footprints

Black and white photo of a strap-on sole carved with a cow's cloven hoofprint at each end, used by moonshiners during Prohibition to hide their footprints

The shoe was described in a Florida newspaper in 1922 which led to many people, including the authorities, knowing a great deal about the moonshiners’ ingenious way of preventing detection. The knowledge of the shoe didn’t immediately stop its use nor did it stop the moonshiners who just continued to think of new ways to evade police and get their product to an increasingly thirsty public.
Source: Moonshiners Wore Special Shoes To Evade the Law During Prohibition