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Summary:
A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Contents:
- Introduction : murderland
- Origins
- The path to Pikeville
- Dark and bloody ground
- Border states
- Avengement
- 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!"
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- Aftermath
- Survivors
- Other feuds
- The Corsica of America
- The inner hillbilly
- Man toys
- Epilogue: the Hatfield-McCoy industry
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: "Green are the woods" by Abner Vance
- Endnotes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
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