TY - BOOK AU - Hutton,T.R.C. ED - Project Muse. TI - Bloody Breathitt: politics and violence in the Appalachian south T2 - New directions in Southern history SN - 9780813142432 AV - F457.B85 H87 2013 U1 - 976.9/19 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Lexington, Kentucky PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Violence KW - Kentucky KW - Breathitt County KW - History KW - Breathitt County (Ky.) KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813142432/ ER -