Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Feuds

Bloody Breathitt Finds Its Scapegoat

T. R. C. Hutton investigates instances of individual and mass violence in the late 19th century Breathitt County of eastern Kentucky.

Please welcome guest author Dean King, who weighs in on the Hatfields & McCoys with his newly published history ‘Feud’.

In 1912 Devil Anse’s son Willis demanded pharmacist EO Thornhill write him a whiskey prescription. Thornhill would not. Hatfield shot him.

The Hatfields and McCoys. America’s very own Montagues and Capulets. Symbols etched in America’s mind for Appalachian lawlessness.

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