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Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky

Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky

Pearce, John Ed

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813118743
ISBN13: 9780813118741
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Nov 15 1994
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorious feuds to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, and questions commonly held beliefs about long-running feuds in Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces--social, political, financial--hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and newspaper articles to put to rest some of the more popular legends.

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