Blood feud : the Hatfields and the McCoys : the epic story of murder and vengeance /
Alther, Lisa.
Blood feud : the Hatfields and the McCoys : the epic story of murder and vengeance / Lisa Alther. - Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012. - xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Maps and genealogical tables on folded dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-273) and index.
Introduction : murderland -- The path to Pikeville -- Dark and bloody ground -- Border states -- 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!" -- Survivors -- Other feuds -- The Corsica of America -- The inner hillbilly -- Man toys -- Epilogue : the Hatfield-McCoy industry -- Appendix : "Green are the woods" / by Abner Vance.
Discusses the long-running feud between the two families, beginning with a Civil War era murder, through thefts, home burnings, and multiple killings up to the 1890s and the impact the feud had on popular imagination and other feuds in the region.
0762779187 : HRD $24.95 9780762779185
Globe Pequot Pr, Attn: Cynthia Robbins Po Box 480, Guilford, CT, USA, 06437-0480, (203)4584551 SAN 201-9892
2012011777
Vendetta--United States.
Families--United States.
HV6446 / .B56 2012
303.6/2
Blood feud : the Hatfields and the McCoys : the epic story of murder and vengeance / Lisa Alther. - Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012. - xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Maps and genealogical tables on folded dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-273) and index.
Introduction : murderland -- The path to Pikeville -- Dark and bloody ground -- Border states -- 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!" -- Survivors -- Other feuds -- The Corsica of America -- The inner hillbilly -- Man toys -- Epilogue : the Hatfield-McCoy industry -- Appendix : "Green are the woods" / by Abner Vance.
Discusses the long-running feud between the two families, beginning with a Civil War era murder, through thefts, home burnings, and multiple killings up to the 1890s and the impact the feud had on popular imagination and other feuds in the region.
0762779187 : HRD $24.95 9780762779185
Globe Pequot Pr, Attn: Cynthia Robbins Po Box 480, Guilford, CT, USA, 06437-0480, (203)4584551 SAN 201-9892
2012011777
Vendetta--United States.
Families--United States.
HV6446 / .B56 2012
303.6/2