Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813161242)

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

Author: T. R. C. Hutton
ISBN-10: 081316124X
ISBN-13: 9780813161242
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2015
Pages: 444
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.83h x 6.45w x 1.07d