Blood Feud: The Hatfields & The McCoys (37 page)

5 Ibid., 173.

6 Brewton Berry,
Almost White
(New York: Collier Macmillan, 1969) 16.

7 Edgar Thompson, “The Little Races,”
American Anthropologist
74, no. 5 (1972): 1295–1306.

8 John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball, and N. Brent Kennedy,
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001) 35–42.

9 McCoy,
The McCoys,
114.

10 Caryl Lamont, “Thomas Bailey Christian and Chief Cornstalk,” Christian Family Genealogy Forum: http://genforum.genealogy.com/christian/messages/2949.html.

11 McCoy,
The McCoys,
73.

12 Jones,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
38.

13 Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
32.

14 Ibid., 16.

15 Ibid., 12.

16 McCoy,
The McCoys,
3.

17 Roxanne Khamsi. “Genes Reveal West African Heritage of White Brits,” NewScientist online, January 24, 2007, www.newscientist.com, DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771.

18 Fulvio Cruciani, Roberta La Fratta, Beniamino Trombetta, Piero Santolamazza, Daniele Sellitto, Eliane Beraud Colomb, and Jean-Michel Dugoujon, et al.,
“Tracing Past Human Male Movements in Northern/Eastern Africa and Western Eurasia: New Clues from Y-Chromosomal Haplogroups E-M78 and J-M12,”
Molecular Biology and Evolution
24, no. 6 (June 2007): 1300–1311, DOI:
10.

19 “Hatfield Early Origins,” House of Names website: www.houseofnames.com/hatfield-family-crest.

20 McCoy,
The McCoys,
3.

21 David Hackett Fischer,
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 605–782.

22 Ibid., 693–94.

23 Nisbett and Cohen,
Culture of Honor,
xv.

24 Pat Solley, “Corsican Soup and Pulp Fiction” (e-SoupSong: Jan. 1, 2002): www.soupsong.com/zjan02.html.

25 Nisbett and Cohen,
Culture of Honor,
5.

26 Ibid., 42–53.

27 Ibid., 1.

28 Ibid., 22.

29 Ibid., 9.

30 Untitled editorial,
New York Times,
December 26, 1878.

31 Nisbett and Cohen,
Culture of Honor,
5.

32 John Shelton Reed,
One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982), 147.

33 West Virginia Division of Culture and History, transcript of interview with Margaret Hatfield, June 11, 1992, for the film
West Virginia
, WV History Film Project: www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/filmtranscripts/wvhatfield.html.

34 Nisbett and Cohen,
Culture of Honor,
88.

35 Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
31.

36 Waller,
Feud,
267, note 19.

37 “Hatfield-McCoy Feud Blamed on ‘Rage’ Disease,” (Associated Press, Apr. 5, 2007): www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17967965/ns/health-health_care/t/hatfield-mccoy-feud-blamed-rage-disease/#.TyCB-pi4KrI.

38 Ibid.

39 Waller,
Feud,
196–97.

40
Ibid.,
70.

41 Williams,
West Virginia,
103–4.

42 Ibid., 104.

43 Nando Pelusi, “Neanderthink: The Appeal of the Bad Boy,”
Psychology Today,
January 1, 2009.

44 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
103–4.

45 Ibid., 24.

46 Ibid., 153.

47 McCoy,
The McCoys,
81.

48 Ibid., 126.

49 Ibid., 48.

50 Blaise Pascal,
Pensees
, trans. A. J. Krailsheimer (New York: Penguin, 2003), 136.

51 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
164.

52 Mildred Haun, “Shin-Bone Rocks,” in
The Hawk’s Done Gone and Other Stories by Mildred Haun,
ed. Herschel Gower (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), 183–96.

53 Henry Caudill,
Night Comes to the Cumberlands
(Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1962), 79.

54 Rice,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
7.

55 Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
4, 40.

56 Donnelly (
Hatfield-McCoy Feud Reader,
17). Hatfield and Spence (
Tale of the Devil,
121) say Sarah Staton had five children when her husband was murdered, with a sixth on the way.

Chapter 14: The Inner Hillbilly

1 Howell,
Pittsburgh
(PA)
Times,
February, 1, 1888, as quoted in Waller,
Feud
, 222.

2 Pearce,
Days of Darkness,
7.

3 Ibid., 58.

4 Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
23.

5 Philip Hatfield,
The Other Feud,
73–74.

6 Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
36.

7 “ ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield of Feud Fame Dies in Logan County
,” Charleston (WV) Daily Gazette,
Jan. 8, 1921, as reproduced in L. D. Hatfield,
True Story
, 47.

8 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
244.

9 Ibid., 105–6.

10 Ibid., 261–65.

11 Ibid., 92.

12 Hatfield and Davis,
Feuding Hatfields,
125–26.

13 Jones,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
197.

14 Saira Shah,
The Storyteller’s Daughter
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).

15 “Devil Anse Hatfield of Feud Fame,”
Charleston (WV) Gazette,
January 8, 1921, as reproduced in L. D. Hatfield,
True Story
, 49. But Hatfield and Spence (
Tale of the Devil, 259)
label this story “improbable (and eventually false).”

16
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette,
Jan. 9, 1916, as reproduced in K. M. Presland, “Emmett Dalton: His Life after the Coffreyville Raid: Destination Hollywood”: www.kayempea.net/hollywood.shtml.

17 McCoy,
The McCoys,
217.

18 Ibid.

19 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
258.

20 See Crawford,
An American Vendetta,
passim, and the newspaper articles at “Newspaper Articles”: http://swansonwill.tripod.com/newspaper.htm.

21 J. W. Williamson,
Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1994), 301.

22 Shapiro,
Appalachia on Our Mind,
102.

23 William Goodell Frost, “Our Contemporary Ancestors in the Southern Mountains,”
Atlantic Monthly
83 (March 1899), 311.

24 Williamson,
Southern Mountaineers,
7.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid, 9.

27 An excellent account of the industrialization of the Southern mountains is: Ronald Eller,
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). See also the documentary
Mine Wars: The Coal Miners’ War for Freedom,
written and directed by Bill Richardson (Williamson, WV: Bill Richardson Productions, 2004).

28 Williams,
West Virginia,
149.

29 Eller,
Miners,
56.

30 Caudill,
Night Comes,
65–66; Eller,
Miners,
54–57.

31 Eller,
Miners,
55–56; Williams,
West Virginia
, 109.

32 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

33 Caudill,
Night Comes,
98–100; Eller,
Miners,
162.

34 Caudill,
Night Comes,
114; Eller,
Miners,
188.

35 Eller,
Miners,
183.

36 Caudill,
Night Comes,
103–4.

37 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

38 Eller,
Miners,
196–97.

39 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

40 Eller,
Miners,
217–18; Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

41 Eller,
Miners,
213.

42 Eller,
Miners,
177; Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

43 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

44 Caudill,
Night Comes,
118–22.

45 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

46 Ibid.

47 Ibid.

48 John Milton Cooper Jr.,
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
(New York: Vintage, 2011). 8.

49 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

50 Waller,
Feud,
244.

51 Accounts of the Matewan Massacre can be found in Jones,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
225–31; L. D. Hatfield,
True Story,
62–66; Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
274–75; and Richardson,
Mine Wars
. See also Lon Savage,
Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920–21.
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990), passim.

52 L. D. Hatfield,
True Story,
64.

53 Jones,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
236.

54 Richardson,
Mines Wars.

55 Williams,
West Virginia
, 115.

56 Ibid.

57 Waller,
Feud,
244.

58 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
275.

59 Jones,
Hatfields and the McCoys,
237.

60 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

61 Ibid.

62 Ibid.

63 Ibid.

64 Ibid.

65 Williams,
West Virginia
, 147.

66 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

67 Williams,
West Virginia
, 147.

68 Richardson,
Mine Wars
.

69 Ibid.

70 Ibid.

71 Savage,
Thunder
, 161.

72 Waller,
Feud,
228.

73 Jeffrey H. Schwartz, “Development and Progress of the Appalachian Higher Education Network: Executive Summary” (Appalachian Regional Commission, May, 2004): www.arc.gov/images/newsroom/publications/AHEN/AHENetwork.pdf.

74 M. A. Palmer et al, “Mountaintop Mining Consequences,”
Science
, v.327, no. 5962 (January 2010) 148–49.

75 Kentuckians for the Commonwealth homepage, “Health Impacts Are Harmful and Costly”: www.kftc.org/our-work/canary-project/campaigns/mtr/health.

76 Travis Donovan, “Mountaintop Removal Mining Birth Defects: New Study Suggests Controversial Coal Operations Linked to Adverse Health Effects,”
Huffington Post,
updated Aug. 27, 2011: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/mountaintop-removal-coal-mining-birth-defects_n_885172.html.

77 Kris Maher, “Coal-Town Puzzle: Mountain vs. Jobs,” online
Wall Street Journal
, June 13, 2011: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304665904576381780771812772-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwMzExNDMyWj.html

78 “Business of the Year: Alpha Natural Resources,”
Tri-Cities Business Journal
(Johnson City, TN: Mountaineer Publishing, Jan., 2012) 8–12: http://www.alphanr.com/News%20Releases/BusinessJournal_January.

79
The Last Mountain,
written and directed by Bill Haney (Los Angeles and Boston: Uncommon Productions, 2011).

Chapter 15: Man Toys

1 Hatfield and Spence,
Tale of the Devil,
112.

2 William Henry Reed, unpublished memoirs.

3 Annette Potter, “The Hanging of Marshall Benton Taylor,” Annette Potter Family Genealogy homepage: http://yeahpot.com/taylor/hangingofredfox.html.

4 “Two More Dead in Allen Feud,”
New York Times,
March 16, 1912: www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/allensnews.html.

5 Sutherland,
Pioneer Recollections,
170.

6 Marlitta Perkins, “Alf Killen, Unionist Scout and Guerrilla: A Brief History,” Our Alternate Impression: Alf Killen’s Unionist Home Guards website: http://geocitiessites.com/Pentagon/Fort/2754/Alf_Killen.html.

7 Anita Owens Adkins and Callie Long, “Joel D. ‘Dusty Pants’ Long, USA”: www.oocities.org/pentagon/Quarters/1365/JLong.html.

8 Sutherland,
Pioneer Recollections
,
183.

9 Bible, Exodus 34: 6–7.

10 Waller,
Feud,
10.

Epilogue

1 “The Reunion They Said Would Never Happen”: http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa043000a.htm.

2 “Hatfield-McCoy Feud Goes to the Graves,” (Jun. 1, 2002), Goliath website: www.granta.com/New-Writing/War-and-Peace-on-the-Big-Sandy-River.

3 Dean H. King, “War and Peace on the Big Sandy River,”
Granta
(Sept. 3, 2011):http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1800483/Hatfield-McCoy-feud-goes-to.html.

Books and Articles

Berry, Brewton.
Almost White.
New York: Collier Macmillan, 1969.

Brown, Fred, and Juanita Blair.
Days of Anger, Days of Tears: The History of the Rowan County War.
Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2007.

“Business of the Year: Alpha Natural Resources.”
Business Journal of Tri-Cities TN/VA
(January 2012): 8–12.

Caudill, Harry.
Night Comes to the Cumberlands
. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1962.

Cooper, John Milton, Jr.
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.
New York: Vintage, 2011.

Crawford, T. C.
An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States
. Edited by Eldean Wellman. Verdunville, WV: Eldean Wellman, 2004.

Cruciani, Fulvio, Roberta La Fratta, Beniamino Trombetta, Piero Santolamazza, Daniele Sellitto, Eliane Beraud Colomb, and Jean-Michel Dugoujon, et al. “Tracing Past Human Male Movements in Northern/Eastern Africa and Western Eurasia: New Clues from Y-Chromosomal Haplogroups E-M78 and J-M12.”
Molecular Biology and Evolution
24, no. 6 (June 2007): 1300–1311, DOI: 10.

Donnelly, Shirley.
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Reader.
Parsons, WV: McClain, 1971.

Eller, Ronald.
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Fischer, David Hackett.
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Hatfield, Coleman C., and F. Keith Davis.
The Feuding Hatfields and McCoys.
Chapmanville, WV: Woodland Press, 2008.

Hatfield, Coleman C., and Robert Y. Spence.
The Tale of the Devil: The Biography of Devil Anse Hatfield.
Chapmanville, WV: Woodland Press, 2007.

Hatfield, G. Elliot.
The Hatfields.
Stanville, KY: Big Sandy Valley Historical Society, 1974.

Hatfield, L. D.
The True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud.
LaVergne, TN: Kessinger Legacy Reprints, 1945.

Hatfield, Philip.
The Other Feud: William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield in the Civil War.
Lexington, KY: Philip Hatfield, 2010.

Haun, Mildred.
The Hawk’s Done Gone and Other Stories by Mildred Haun.
Edited by Herschel Gower. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.

Jones, Virgil Carrington.
The Hatfields and the McCoys.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948.

Kessler, John S., Donald B. Ball, and N. Brent Kennedy.
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio.
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001.

Khamsi, Roxanne. “Genes Reveal West African Heritage of White Brits.” NewScientist online, January 24, 2007, www.newscientist.com, DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771.

MacCorkle, William A.
Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia.
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1928.

McCoy, Truda Williams.
The McCoys: Their Story as Told to the Author by Eye Witnesses and Descendants.
Pikeville, KY: Preservation Council Press, 1976.

Nisbett, Richard E., and Dov Cohen.
Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Honor in the South.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.

Otterbein, Keith F. “Five Feuds: An Analysis of Homicides in Eastern Kentucky in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
American Anthropologist
102, no. 2 (June 2000): 231–43.

Pascal, Blaise.
Pensees.
New York: Penguin, 1995.

Pearce, John Ed.
Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Pelusi, Nando. “Neanderthink: The Appeal of the Bad Boy.”
Psychology Today,
January 1, 2009.

Platania, Joseph. “Men to Match the Mountains: Devil Anse Hatfield and Uncle Dyke Garrett.”
Goldenseal
10, no. 3: 26–32.

Reed, John Shelton.
One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Rice, Otis K.
The Hatfields and the McCoys.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

Savage, Lon.
Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920–21.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

Shah, Saira.
The Storyteller’s Daughter.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Shapiro, Henry D.
Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870–1920
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.

Sharfstein, Daniel.
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.
New York: Penguin, 2011.

Sutherland, Daniel E.
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Sutherland, Elihu Jasper.
Pioneer Recollections of Southwest Virginia.
Clintwood, VA: Mullins Printing, 1984.

Thompson, Edgar. “The Little Races.”
American Anthropologist
74, no. 5 (1972): 1295–1306.

Waller, Altina L.
Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Williams, John Alexander.
Appalachia: A History
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Williams, John Alexander.
West Virginia: A History.
New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1984.

Williamson, J. W.
Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1994.

Films and DVDs

Feud
(DVD). Written and directed by Bill Richardson. Williamson, WV: Bill Richardson Productions, 1998.

The Hatfields and the McCoys.
Written and directed by Clyde Ware. Los Angeles: Charles Fries Productions, 1974.

Hatfields and McCoys: An American Feud
(DVD).
New York: A&E Biography, 1996.

Matewan.
Written and directed by John Sayles. New York: Cinecom Entertainment Group, 1987.

Mine Wars
(DVD).
Written and directed by Bill Richardson. Williamson, WV: Bill Richardson Productions, 2004.

Roseanna McCoy
. Directed by Irving Reis. Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn, 1949.

Secrets of the Valley: Prehistory of the Kanawha
(DVD).
Written by Erika Celeste. Huntington, WV: Paradise Film Institute, 2010.

CDs

Hatfield-McCoy: Historic Feud Sites Audio Driving Tour.
Produced by Randy Jones. East KY Broadcasting, 2005.

The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Great Vendetta.
Composed and sung by Jimmy Wolford. Wolf Records, 1998.

Newspapers (various issues)

Atlanta Constitution

Big Sandy News
(Louisa, KY)

Burlington
(VT)
Free Press

Cincinnati
(OH)
Enquirer

Courier-Journal
(Louisville, KY)

Intelligencer
(Wheeling, WV)

Kingsport
(TN)
Times News

New York
Times

Pittsburgh Times