Who was Bootsie Magou?

Bootsie Magou Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Flapper by “day.” Bootlegger by “night.” A wily coyote by way of the 1920s and ’30s.

All he did was mispronounce her name.

“Mr. MacLardy,” she said calmly, as he lay stunned at her feet, “it’s pronounced Mah-gaow. Not Muh-goo. If you disrespect my name again, you’ll suffer something far worse than lying on a barroom floor. Do we understand each other, sir?”

The stakes were high in the 1920s bootlegging scene, and Bootsie was on edge. She was being hunted—and she knew it. For the record, MacLardy soiled himself. Neither he, nor anyone else in that room, would ever mispronounce her name again.

Bootleggers Trail was no place for the faint of heart, and Bootsie broke many of them during her run. Flapper by “day” and bootlegger by “night,” she was an existential threat to the heartless souls who dared traverse that road.

"To me, it was no mystery why she was so successful. Everyone wanted a piece of Bootsie Magou—friend or foe—and her bourbon was the closest anyone ever got."