Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Curt Jett, the wild dog of the mountains

Curt Jett shot US Commissioner J.B. Marcum at almost the exact spot at the Breathitt County Courthouse where he’d shot James Cockrill.

They said that his own wife had killed their chief, Yellow Rattlesnake, & they were just now about to send Black Rattlesnake for revenge.

On October 1, 1755, while returning home from Fort Cumberland [MD] Trading Post several miles away, white settler Jane Frazier was captured.

Participant Christine Galliher discusses the plant strike at North American Rayon Corp in Johnson City, TN on March 12, 1929.

In 1822, in company with my wife, I emigrated to America. We reached Pittsburg by stage. From there we floated down the Ohio on a flat-boat.