Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring And Eighteen Months in the Penitentiary. Containing a Complete Exposure of the Illicit Whiskey Frauds Culminating in 1875, with Documentary Proofs ... to which is Added the Author's Remarkable Experiences While a Convict in the Missouri Penitentiary, at Jefferson City
Scandal usually traced to President Grant's secretary, O.E. Babcock, but McDonald accuses the President of participation. The ring appropriated over 1.2 million dollars in the state of Missouri.