The Hatfields & the McCoys by Bruce Wexler

The Hatfields & the McCoys

Bruce Wexler
192 pages
Skyhorse Publishing
Jan 2013
 Book : Biography : English
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School Library JournalGr 8 Up—The Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky are areas of great beauty and tremendous poverty. The locus of Old World artists and free thinkers, they were also hotbeds of some of the most violent family strife in the history of the United States. The Hatfields and the McCoys came from the British Isles, early settlers to the United States. Indeed, the Hatfields came over on the Mayflower-but both families arrived in the United States seeking to worship freely. Intent on retaining a high degree of self-determinism, the families were prominent in the Tug Valley of Kentucky, and both were headed by patriarchs who served in the Civil War. The likelihood that they suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome is high; and the violence that came to pass may very well have been a result of that affliction.
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Pages 192
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Published 2013
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