Editing Crawford County, Kansas (section)

===20th century===
In the early 20th century, Crawford County was often referred to as the "Little Balkans", because of the many immigrants who came here from that area of Europe. They came to work in the mines, industrial work that did not require much English in the beginning. This area was the site of a number of illegal bootlegging operations, most of which were organized by immigrants in order to supplement their meager earnings as strip miners. During his term, Governor [[Walter R. Stubbs]] of Kansas made it his mission to stamp out this practice.<ref name=chap64>{{cite book|last1=Connelley|first1=William|title=A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans|url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/ch64p1.html|access-date=September 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613193014/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/ch64p1.html|archive-date=June 13, 2013|date=1918|chapter=Walter Roscoe Stubbs}}</ref><ref name=boozebros>{{cite news|title=Booze Brothers|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/may/01/booze_brothers/?print|access-date=September 29, 2017|work=[[Lawrence Journal-World]]|date=May 1, 2006}}</ref> According to the criminal justice scholar Ken Peak, "The [Little] Balkans drove [Stubbs] absolutely nuts. He had his hands full and sent people down to the Balkans to clean it up".<ref name=boozebros/> Despite this crack down, however, the governor was unable to eradicate the crime completely from the area.<ref name=boozebros/>