Days of Darkness [electronic resource] : the Feuds of Eastern Kentucky / John Ed Pearce.
Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, the author weaves accounts of six of the most notorious feuds -...
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University Press of Kentucky,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- What This Is All About
- Harlan County : The Turners Meet the Howards. Choose Your Outlaw ; The Turners Meet the Howards ; The Trap that Didn't Spring
- Breathitt County : A Talent for Violence. Almost a Romantic Journey ; Captain Strong's Last Ride ; The Last and Bloodiest Feud
- Pike, Perry, and Rowan Counties : Mayhem Everywhere. No Romeo, No Juliet, No Heroes ; The Woman in the Case ; A Nice Little College Town
- Clay County : The Hundred-Year War. The Incident at the Courthouse ; Drawing the Lines ; A Legacy of Violence ; The Fatal Clash on Crane Creek ; Trouble on the Burying Ground ; The Best Men in the County ; The Turtle Calls for Bad Tom ; Bloody Time in Frankfort ; The Feuds Wind Down.