Bibliograph

The Hatfields and the McCoys

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The Hatfields and the McCoys

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

768083114

Summary

The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment. Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, and other documentary evident, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend. He

Table Of Contents

Cover; THE HATFIELDS AND THE McCOYS; Title; Copyright; TO MY SISTERS Alma and Rosalie Rice AND MY GRANDNEPHEW David Neal Thomas; Contents; Preface; 1 / The Feudists and Their Society; 2 / The Legacy of the Civil War; 3 / Election Days on Blackberry Creek; 4 / The Smoldering Fires; 5 / An Era of Violence; 6 / Inflammatory Politics; 7 / New Year's Day 1888; 8 / The Hatfields on the Defensive; 9 / The Governors Intervene; 10 / Victory for Kentucky; 11 / Hawkshaws in the Hills; 12 / The Hatfields Stand Trial; 13 / The War Spirit Abates; 14 / The Habit of Violence; Epilogue; NotesBibliographical NoteIndex; Illustrations follow page

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