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1 Online-Ressource (170 pages)
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ISBN:
0813138507
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0813129087
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9780813138503
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9780813129082
Inhalt:
The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment. Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, and other documentary evident, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend. He
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Bibliographical NoteIndex; Illustrations follow page
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Cover; THE HATFIELDS AND THE McCOYS; Title; Copyright; TO MY SISTERS Alma and Rosalie Rice AND MY GRANDNEPHEW David Neal Thomas; Contents; Preface; 1 / The Feudists and Their Society; 2 / The Legacy of the Civil War; 3 / Election Days on Blackberry Creek; 4 / The Smoldering Fires; 5 / An Era of Violence; 6 / Inflammatory Politics; 7 / New Year's Day 1888; 8 / The Hatfields on the Defensive; 9 / The Governors Intervene; 10 / Victory for Kentucky; 11 / Hawkshaws in the Hills; 12 / The Hatfields Stand Trial; 13 / The War Spirit Abates; 14 / The Habit of Violence; Epilogue; Notes
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ISBN 9780813114590
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rice, Otis Hatfields and the McCoys Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2010 ISBN 9780813114590
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