Blood feud :
by Alther, Lisa. frey50
Published by : Lyons Press, (Guilford, Conn. :) , 2012 Physical details: 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:9780762779185; 0762779187.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 300 - 399 | Book Cart | 303.62 Alt (Browse shelf) | Available | 98875 |
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| 303.49 Har Homo deus : | 303.4973 Kun The long emergency : | 303.6 Vio Violence in the media | 303.62 Alt Blood feud : | 303.6250973 Pis Terrorism's war with America : | 304.2 Bar Baraka | 304.2 McP The Control of Nature |
Introduction : murderland -- Origins -- The path to Pikeville -- Dark and bloody ground -- Border states -- Avengement -- Hog trial -- Montagues and Capulets of the Cumberlands -- Pawpaw murders -- Devil anse and the hellhounds -- New year's night massacre -- All over but the shouting -- "The Hatfields made me do it!" -- Aftermath -- Survivors -- Other feuds -- The Corsica of America -- The inner hillbilly -- Man toys -- Epilogue: the Hatfield-McCoy industry -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: "Green are the woods" by Abner Vance -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative.