End of the Feud, and Other Kentucky Legends
Author | : James William Jewell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Kentucky |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James William Jewell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Kentucky |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Ed Pearce |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1994-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813138345 |
" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds -- those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces -- social, political, financial -- hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Includes Part 1A: Books
Author | : American Dialect Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
The citizens of Kentucky, a state already known as the Dark and Bloody Ground, did much to substantiate the state's reputation, judging from accounts of the region's violent feuds reported in the nation's newspapers of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The New York Times of July 26, 1885 stated, "The savages who inhabit this region are not manly enough to fight fairly, face to face. They lie in wait and shoot their enemies in the back ... One can hardly believe that any part of the United States is cursed with people so lawless and degraded." This book details some of the feuds that led to Kentucky's dubious reputation.
Author | : Altina Laura Waller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Hatfield-McCoy Feud |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence Sidney Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2258 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |