The Hatfields and the McCoys - Couverture rigide

Rice, Otis K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813102359 ISBN 13 : 9780813102351

Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 1982

Synopsis

In an attempt to separate myth from fact, the author probes the origins of the McCoy-Hatfield vendetta and the social, political, economic, and cultural ramifications of Appalachia's famous nineteenth-century family feud.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 evident, 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Noted historian Otis K. Rice (1919 2003) is one of the most recognized scholars in the field of West Virginia history. His many contributions to the scholarly study of West Virginia received formal recognition in 2003 when Dr. Rice became the state's first Historian Laureate. Dr. Rice is the author or coauthor of several published works, including West Virginia: A History, The Mountain State: An Introduction to West Virginia, and Frontier Kentucky. A former professor, Dr. Rice served at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology for many years. He chaired the history department from 1962 to 1984 and served as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1984 to 1997.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of Kentucky
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813102359
• ISBN 13: 9780813102351
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible