Bloody Breathitt Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South

Informationen zum Autor T. R. C. Hutton is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Tennessee. Klappentext The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early twentieth century, Breathitt's 500 square miles of rugged upcountry land was known as "the darkest and bloodiest of all the dark and bloody feud counties" due to its considerable number of homicides, which wer

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T. R. C. Hutton is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Tennessee.

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• Authors: T.r.c. Hutton, T R s Hutton, T. R. C. Hutton, T. R. s. Hutton, T R C Hutton
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.01.2015
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780813161242
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6124-2
• Pages: 444
• Series: New Directions in Southern History; New Directions in Southern His
• Subjects: History - U.S.; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)