The Dramatic Story of A Mountain Feud: Annotated Edition: Volume 5 (The Appalachian Heritage Series) - Softcover

Spears, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511632607 ISBN 13: 9781511632607

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

In 1888, as news of the attacks by the Hatfields on the home of Ran'l McCoy on New Year's Eve spread, John Spears, a New York City newspaperman, came to the Tug Valley to report on the violent incidents. He found himself in the home of Ran'l McCoy, and the version of events told to him came by way of Perry Cline, Pike County prosecutor Lee Ferguson, and Ran'l McCoy himself. The writings of John Spears, for better or worse, became the basis of all Hatfield McCoy feud writing to follow. If you want to understand how the feud story came to be, this is the place to start. This version has been carefully annotated to show how it supports and deviates from the factual record.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1511632607
• ISBN 13: 9781511632607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• Editor: Hardesty Ryan