American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States
By Theron Clark Crawford · Running time 03:41:50 · Modern (19th C)
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The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is a sensationalized account of the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys along the mountainous border of Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1800s. At the height of the feud in 1888, yellow journalist T. C. Crawford interviewed Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield in person at his headquarters in West Virginia. Crawford's stories were serialized in a New York newspaper and later published in book form. The accounts of the Hatfields and McCoys led to the still-common, unf
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