Blood feud : the Hatfields and the McCoys : the epic story of murder and vengeance / Lisa Alther.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012.Description: xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0762779187 : HRD
  • 9780762779185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6/2 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6446 .B56 2012
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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