feuds Archives - Appalachian History

Hatfields escape WV jail, head west

Cap Hatfield’s reason for stopping at Gunnison had nothing to do with gold fever or a personal desire for wealth.

For many years Ira Butts and neighbor Clifton Pitts had been arguing over the boundary line of a small piece of property.

I never think of Shea’s Fork without my mind reverting back to that dismal, heartless day in the long ago.

The North Fork cattlemen shot the Amis horse & took 20 head of cattle from him to compensate for the cattle that John Amis destroyed.

John Amis was on the south side of the Kentucky River. William Strong was on the North Fork. Feud trouble was about to brew between them.