Bloody Breathitt [electronic resource] : politics and violence in the Appalachian south / T.R. C. Hutton.
Material type: TextSeries: New directions in Southern historyPublication details: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 430 pages :) illustrations, maps 'ISBN:- 9780813142432
- 976.9/19 23
- F457.B85 H87 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-413) and index.
Introduction: "The darkest and bloodiest of all the dark and bloody feud counties" -- "To them, it was no-man's land": before Breathitt was bloody -- "Suppressing the late rebellion": guerrilla fighting in a loyal state -- "The war spirit was high": scenes from an un-reconstructed county -- "The civilizing and christianizing effects of material improvement and development" -- Death of a feudal hero -- "There has always been the bitterest political feeling in the county": a courthouse ring in the age of assassination -- "The feudal wars of Eastern Kentucky will no doubt be utilized in coming years by writers of fiction": reading and writing bloody Breathitt -- Epilogue.
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