Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia

Contents

List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction 1 Bruce E. Stewart 1. Violence, Statecraft, and Statehood in the Early Republic: The State of Franklin, 1784–1788 25 Kevin T. Barksdale 2. “Devoted to Hardships, Danger, and Devastation”: The Landscape of Indian and White Violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1753–1800 53 Kathryn Shively Meier 3. “Our Mad Young Men”: Authority and Violence in Cherokee Country 80 Tyler Boulware 4. The “Ferocious Character” of Antebellum Georgia’s Gold Country: Frontier Lawlessness and Violence in Fact and Fiction 99 John C. Inscoe 5. “A Possession, or an Absence of Ears”: The Shape of Violence in Travel Narratives about the Mountain South, 1779–1835 125 Katherine E. Ledford 6. Violence against Slaves as a Catalyst in Changing Attitudes toward Slavery: An 1857 Case Study in East Tennessee 145 Durwood Dunn Contents 7. “These Big-Boned, Semi-Barbarian People”: Moonshining and the Myth of Violent Appalachia, 1870–1900 180 Bruce E. Stewart 8. “Deep in the Shades of Ill-Starred Georgia’s Wood”: The Murder of Elder Joseph Standing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia 207 Mary Ella Engel 9. Race and Violence in Urbanizing Appalachia: The Roanoke Riot of 1893 237 Rand Dotson 10. Assassins and Feudists: Politics and Death in the Bluegrass and Mountains of Kentucky 272 T. R. C. Hutton 11. “A Hard-Bitten Lot”: Nonstrike Violence in the Early Southern West Virginia Smokeless Coalfields, 1880–1910 314 Paul H. Rakes and Kenneth R. Bailey 12. “The Largest Manhunt in Western North Carolina’s History”: The Story of Broadus Miller 340 Kevin W. Young 13. The Murder of Thomas Price: Image, Identity, and Violence in Western North Carolina 380 Richard D. Starnes List of Contributors 397 Index 401 vi Contents ...