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followed by the New York Times and other national newspapers. Yet this violence involved only five deaths and several severely wounded persons from the two hundred or so shots fired. The trials themselves brought two more executions. The Aliens were wealthy and prominent citizens brought to court by admittedly clumsy legal administration for minor infractions, and the Aliens believed that purely partisan justice was sending an honored family patriarch to jail. Recent scholarship has shown that mountain violence continues to be stereotypically overemphasized, particularly in the nation's mass media (note the treatment of violence in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Kentucky Cycle). Shootings indeed have been part of Appalachian life from the Civil War massacre at Shelton Laurel, North Carolina, to the feuds of Eastern Kentucky and the shootings that still fill our papers. Yet how different is this situation from today's New York, Washington, D.C, or rural California? Such matters appear to be integral parts of any society that accepts casual and broad gun possession. -Richard B. Drake Our Reviewers Amy Caudill Hogg, a native of Letcher County, Kentucky, is assistant editor of Courier, a Lexington-based magazine for the tour industry . . . Michael Montgomery , an English professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, is an expert in linguistics . . . Richard B. Drake, retired Berea College history professor, reviews books for Appalachian Heritage and continues to work on his history ofAppalachia. 72 ...

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