Hatfield-McCoy Feud: A Timeline

A Chronology

The Hatfield-McCoy feud ran off and on for nearly 30 years. Here, against the backdrop of other events in American history, is a chronology of the feud’s main events.

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Book Note: Rednecks

by Taylor Brown. St. Martin’s Press, 2024. 310 pp.

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By: Joan Vannorsdall

Book Note: Grandma Gatewood’s Walk

by Ben Montgomery. Chicago Review Press. 2015. 266 pp.

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Book Note: The Caretaker

by Ron Rash. Doubleday, 2023. 252pp.

Jul 1, 2024
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Book Note – Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland

by Jeremy B. Jones. (Blair, 2014). 253 pp.

May 1, 2024
By: Joan Vannorsdall

Book Note – The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South

edited by Kami Ahrens. (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). 268 pp.

Mar 1, 2024
By: Joan Vannorsdall

Book Note – Long Man

by Amy Greene. Knopf, 2014. 276 pp.

Jan 1, 2024
By: Joan Vannorsdall

Book Note – Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood

The story behind Wilma Dykeman’s “Family of Earth” is almost as captivating as the book itself. Found in her belongings after her death in 2006, the 200-page manuscript is an account of her Depression-era childhood north of Asheville, North Carolina.

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Book Note: Mingo

Richmond, Virginia, attorney W. Jeff Barnes grew up in coal country, and his novel about the early 20th century efforts to unionize the coalfields gives names and faces to those who lived there.