Days of Darkness (2011)
“It didn’t amount to much—a dozen people killed over a period of eight or ten years—but mainly because of sensational coverage by press and magazine writers, it was blown out of all proportion. Today, thanks to folklore and legend, it is still thought of as a mountain bloodbath, a time of terror in the hills, or as the story of Romeo and Juliet in the mountains. It was none of these.
Actually, were it not for the legend and for the political problems that accompanied and helped prolong the feud,... it would not be worth recounting, but it has been taken very seriously by historians and sociologists. Probably the best straightforward account of the feud is The Hatfields and the McCoys, written in 1978 by Otis K. Rice of West Virginia Institute of Technology. The most unusual—and thorough—survey of the feud is Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Economic Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900, by Altina Waller of the State University of New York. Her work is more a study of the economic transition of the remote valley where the feud occurred than of the feud itself, but perhaps that puts the feud into a more logical context.MoreLess
Actually, were it not for the legend and for the political problems that accompanied and helped prolong the feud,... it would not be worth recounting, but it has been taken very seriously by historians and sociologists. Probably the best straightforward account of the feud is The Hatfields and the McCoys, written in 1978 by Otis K. Rice of West Virginia Institute of Technology. The most unusual—and thorough—survey of the feud is Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Economic Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900, by Altina Waller of the State University of New York. Her work is more a study of the economic transition of the remote valley where the feud occurred than of the feud itself, but perhaps that puts the feud into a more logical context.MoreLess
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