Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies is a brief look at the eighteen years of Prohibition in Colorado. Its pages cover the purpose, problems, and people involved in the "noble experiment" and the fascinating (sometimes amusing) stories of the making and distributing of "bootleg booze."
Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies is the ninth book co-authored by Betty Alt and Sandra Wells. Wells has a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Fort Collins and has retired as Chief Investigator after twenty-nine years with the Pueblo, Colorado, District Attorney's Office. Alt has an M.A. in history from Northeast Missouri State University and currently is a lecturer in sociology at Colorado State University - Pueblo.
