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The Hatfields and the McCoys

by Otis K. Rice
Dick Hill
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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 evidence, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend. He weighs the evidence carefully, avoiding the partisanship and the attitude of condescension and condemnation that have characterized many of the writings concerning the feud.
He sets the feud in the social, political, economic, and cultural context of eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining the legacy of the Civil War, the weakness of institutions such as the church and education system, the exaggerated importance of family, the impotence of the law, and the isolation of the mountain folk, Rice gives new meaning to the origins and progress of the feud. These conditions help explain why the Hatfield and McCoy families, which have produced so many fine citizens, could engage in such a bitter and prolonged vendetta.

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    July 30, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9781452628967
      • File size: 149915 KB
      • Duration: 05:12:19

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      The feud between the Hatfield and the McCoy families in eastern Kentucky and nearby West Virginia is so steeped in legend that myth is accepted as fact. Historian Otis Rice seeks to cut through the fiction and explore the true story. He shows how the feud likely started--probably over a combination of stolen livestock, a star-crossed love affair, and unresolved lawsuits--and how there weren't nearly as many deaths as is commonly believed. Dick Hill offers an engaging reading. His tone and accent are exactly right. He comes across like an Appalachian who knows when to get out of the way of the story. Yet he carries the passages of history and social science with a reserved, almost studied, air. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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