by Dean King
———. “Few Were Aware of Phillips’ Connection with Famous Feud,” p. 17a.
———. “Hatfield Recounts How His Fathers Hauled the Bodies of Slain Brothers Back to the Home of Ranel McCoy,” p. 61a.
———. “Hatfields Produced Mingo’s 2nd Sheriff,” p. 16a.
———. “Hog Trial Is Part of Feud Legend.”
———. “ ‘Johnse’ Hatfield Earned Reputation as a Mountain Romeo.”
———. “Ollie Jane McCoy Smith Going Strong at 87.”
———. “Ranel McCoy’s Century-Old Well Still Exists on Blackberry Fork.”
———. “Sheriff Keadle Had a Prize Prisoner in 1897,” p. 29a.
———. “ ‘Squirrel Huntin’ Sam’ McCoy Played Active Role in Feud,” p. 18a.
———. “Tierney Woman Recalls Life with ‘Devil Anse.’ ”
———. “Tom McCoy Ordained as Minister,” p. 3a.
Scalf, Henry. Kentucky’s Last Frontier. Pikeville, KY: Pikeville College Press of the Appalachian Studies Center, 1972.
Sellards, Harry Leon, Jr. Hatfield and Phillips Families of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern West Virginia. Deland, FL: Sellards, 1993.
Selleck, Kathryn. “Jurisdiction After International Kidnapping: A Comparative Study.” Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 8, issue 1, art. 9 (1985). www.lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol8/iss1/9iclr/vol8/iss1/9.
Shapiro, Henry D. Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineer in the American Consciousness, 1870–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
SHG Resources. State Handbook and Guide. “Early History of Logan County, West Virginia.” www.shgresources.com/wv/counties/logan/.
Southeastern Reporter. Vol. 30. June 7–Sept. 27, 1898: 183–96. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1898.
Spears, John R. “The Dramatic Story of a Mountain Feud.” Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review 1 (July–Dec. 1888): 409–17. New York: Current Literature Publishing Co., 1888. Originally published in the New York Sun.
———. “The Moonshiner’s Still.” New York Sun, Oct. 21, 1888, p. 6.
———. “A Mountain Feud: A Remarkable Story of Murder and Outrage.” New York Sun, Oct. 7, 1888, p. 8.
———. “Mountain News Getting.” New York Sun, Oct. 21, 1888, p. 6.
———. “Murderous Mountaineers.” New York Sun, Oct. 21, 1888, p. 6.
———. “The Story of a Mountain Feud.” Munsey’s Magazine 24 (Oct. 1900–Mar. 1901): 494–509.
Spence, Robert Y. “Henry Clay Ragland.” e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Last updated Oct. 22, 2010. www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1961.
Spivak, John L. The Devil’s Brigade: The Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. New York: Brewer and Warren, 1930.
Staton, Willis David. Hatfields and McCoys: True Romance and Tragedies. Huntington, WV: Aegina Press, 1993. Manuscript was completed in 1947.
Steele, Paul Curry. Anse on Island Creek and Other Poems. Charleston, WV: Mountain State Press, 1981.
Stewart, George R. Names on the Land. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Stickles, Arndt. Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Sturgill, Roy L., and Luther F. Addington. Crimes, Criminals, and Characters of the Cumberlands and Southwest Virginia. Bristol, VA: Quality Printers, 1970.
Supica, Jim. “A Brief History of Firearms.” National Firearms Museum. www.nramuseum.com/gun-info-research/a-brief-history-of-firearms.aspx.
Swain, G. T. History of Logan County, West Virginia. Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1927.
Tapp, Hambleton, and James C. Klotter. Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865–1900. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1977.
Thomas, Jean. Big Sandy. New York: Holt, 1940.
Thomson, Oliver. The Great Feud: The Campbells and the Macdonalds. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2000.
Thurmond, Walter R. The Logan Coal Field: A Brief History. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1964.
Titon, Jeff Todd. “Old Regular Baptists of Southeastern Kentucky: A Community of Sacred Song.” 1997 Festival of American Folklife Program Book. www.folklife.si.edu/resources/festival1997/baptists.htm.
Turk, David. “History—How Much Did It Cost to Find Billy the Kid?” U.S. Marshals Service. www.justice.gov/marshals/history/billythekid.htm.
Tuten, Belle S., Stephen D. White, and Tracey L. Billado. Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.
United States Department of Agriculture. Fourth and Fifth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Years 1887 and 1888. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1889.
Vanderbilt Magazine. “Tumors May Have Fueled Hatfield-McCoy Feud.” Fall 2007.
Velke, John A., III. The True Story of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. Privately published, 2004.
Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
———. “The Hatfield and McCoy Feud.” Matewan 2000. www.matewan.com/History/HM%20story.htm.
Weaver, Jeffrey C. 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry, Smith and Count’s Battalions of Partisan Rangers. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1994.
———. The Civil War in Buchanan and Wise Counties: Bushwhackers’ Paradise. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1994.
Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.
Wilson, Janet. “Kissing Cousins.” ARTnews 94 (1995): 116–30.
Wintz, Bill. “The Bruen Lands Feud.” e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Last updated Jan. 7, 2011. www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/672.
Woods, Roy C. “History of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud with Special Attention to the Effects of Education on It.” West Virginia History: A Quarterly Magazine 22, no. 1 (Oct. 1960).
Newspapers and Serials
Atlanta Constitution: Apr. 7, 1901, “Cunningham’s Historic Hunt for the Hatfields: The Story of a Famous Southern Feud and How It Was Ended,” p. A4.
Baltimore Herald: July 25, 1890. “ ‘Kentucky Bill’ Heard From,” p. 8.
Beckley Post Herald: Mar. 4, 1970. “Testifying Was Dangerous Business,” Shirley Donnelly.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Morning, Sept. 1, 1915. “Hatfield-M’Coy Feud Started over Old Sow and Pigs,” pp. 1, 6; Morning, Sept. 8, 1915. “Devil Anse Stirred ’Em,” p. 5; Sept. 11, 1926. “What We Were Doing: Twenty Years Ago Today,” p. 6.
Charleston Daily Mail: Morning, Aug. 25, 1929. “Police Veterans Spring Surprises,” p. 3; Evening, Feb. 5, 1942. “Death Ends Eventful Career of ‘Uncle Dan’ Cunningham,” pp. 1–2.
Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail : Sept. 24, 1967. “The Mystery of Stillhouse Run,” p. 8m; May 2, 1976. “No Feuding: Hatfields, McCoys Shake Hands in Rain at Monument Dedication,” pp. 1, 10; July 31, 1994. “Feud’s Lore, Gore Aimed at Tourists.”
Chicago Daily Tribune: Feb. 18, 1888. “The Hatfield-M’Coy Feud,” p. 7.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Jan. 30, 1888. “The Bloody Feud: Between the Hatfields and McCoys,” p. 1; Jan. 31, 1888. “Still Buying Winchesters,” p. 1; Oct. 7, 1888. “Devil Ance: The Outlaw King of Kentucky,” p. 1; Oct. 14, 1888. “Hatfield-M’Coy: Origin of the Deadly Feud,” p. 9; Nov. 6, 1896. “Bad ‘Cap’ Is Grimly Awaiting…,” p. 1; Nov. 7, 1896. “Barkers Beside Their Pillows Couldn’t Guard the Mountain Terrors,” p. 1; Nov. 7, 1896. “In Cold Blood,” p. 1; Nov. 8, 1896. “Scot Free Is ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield,” p. 1.
Daily News (Bowling Green, KY): June 4, 2000. “Hatfields, McCoys Bury the Hatchet.”
Daily State Journal (Parkersburg, WV): Feb. 1, 1888. “The Hatfield-McCoy War: A Tale of Horror and Outrages Rarely Equaled,” p. 1.
Evening Times: Sept. 22, 1906. “The Story of a Kentucky Feud,” p. 1.
Floyd County Times: Dec. 3, 1959. “
Rev. Dyke Garret, the Minister Who Baptized Devil Anse Hatfield,” Henry P. Scalf, p. 2.
Huntington Advertiser: Jan. 14, 1888. “A Second Battle,” p. 3; Feb. 4, 1888. “It Is to Be Hoped That the Deplorable Necessity for Sending Troops…,” p. 2; Feb. 18, 1888. “The Complications Resulting from the Hatfield-McCoy Vendetta…,” p. 2; Sept. 22, 1975. “The Story of the Hatfields and McCoys According to A. M. (Lonnie) Lee,” p. 4.
Huntington Herald-Advertiser : Sept. 18, 1938. “Cutting of the Mingo Oak,” Henry King, www.wvculture.org/history/parks/mingooak02.html; Sept. 25, 1938. “Cutting of the Mingo Oak,” H. R. Pinckard, www.wvculture.org/history/parks/mingooak01.html; Jan. 2, 1966. “Hatfield-McCoy Feud Created Legends That Are Still Growing,” George Hanna.
Huntington Herald Dispatch: Aug. 8, 1982. “The Hatfield-McCoy Feud 100th Anniversary,” Dave Peyton.
Kansas City Journal: Feb. 1, 1888. “The Kentucky Vendetta: The True History of the Hatfield-McCoy War.”
La Crosse Tribune: Oct. 21, 1913. “Governor’s Uncle a Vaudeville Artist.”
Logan Banner: Oct. 18, 1957. “Last Survivor of Hatfield-McCoy Feud Tells of Battle of Grapevine Creek,” Eleanor Brewster; May 4, 1986. “Devil Anse’s Grandson Reminisces,” p. 1.
Logan County Banner: Apr. 4, 1889. “We Want Peace and Not Destruction of Property by Fire,” p. 4; Apr. 11, 1889. “The Flat Top Fight” and “Notice,” p. 2.
Los Angeles Times: June 11, 2000. “Hatfields, McCoys Unite to Put Famous Feud to Rest,” Eric Slater, p. A-1.
Louisville Courier-Journal : Jan. 18, 1880. “Curious Facts”; Jan. 1, 1888. “The Beautiful,” p. 2; Jan. 8, 1888. “A Murderous Gang,” p. 2; Jan. 25, 1888. “Bloody War in Pike County,” p. 1; Jan. 26, 1888. “No Troops for Pike,” p. 5; Jan. 30, 1888. “The Legislature: Pike County Legislation,” p. 1; Jan. 30, 1888. “Pike County’s Troubles,” p. 1; Jan. 31, 1888. “Peace Reigns in Pike,” p. 2; Feb. 1, 1888. “Innocents at Home,” p. 1; Feb. 2, 1888. “Hatfield-McCoy Mess,” p. 1; Feb. 7, 1888. “Two Sides to a Story,” p. 1; Feb. 9, 1888. “Middleton’s Murder,” p. 1; Feb. 10, 1888. “Wants Her Citizens,” p. 6; Feb. 17, 1888. “The Hatfields Arrive,” p. 1; Feb. 20, 1888. “Enjoying Prison Life,” p. 2; Feb. 27, 1888. “Holcombe at the Jail,” p. 6; Mar. 2, 1888. “Gossip,” p. 7; Mar. 3, 1888. “Signs of Enterprise,” p. 6; Mar. 4, 1888. “In Favor of Kentucky,” p. 1; Mar. 6, 1888. “Back to Pike,” p. 3; Mar. 6, 1888. “The Hatfield Case,” p. 4; Mar. 7, 1888. “The Appeal Taken,” p. 8; Mar. 8, 1888. “Bullet Riddled,” p. 1; Mar. 9, 1888. “A Boy Resents an Insult to His Mother,” p. 2; Mar. 10, 1888. “Prospects for a Rise,” p. 8; Mar. 10, 1888. “A Very Bad Man,” p. 1; Mar. 11, 1888. “Shot to Pieces,” p. 5; Mar. 17, 1888. “Back to Pikeville,” p. 1; Oct. 13, 1888. “The Hatfield-M’Coy Feud,” p. 5; Feb. 18, 1890. “Death by Law,” p. 1; Feb. 20, 1890. “Mounts on the Scaffold,” p. 1.
Milwaukee Journal: Nov. 9, 1975. “Hatfields, McCoys Bury the Hatchet,” pp. 1, 25.
Montgomery News: Oct. 20, 1911. “Hatfield Brothers Killed in Shootout.”
Morgantown Dominion Post: May 13, 1975. “Hatfields Mourn, Too, for a McCoy,” p. 3-A.
National Police Gazette: Feb. 11, 1888. “The Hatfields and M’Coys,” vol. 51, no. 543, p. 2; Nov. 17, 1888. “Devil Ance’s Pal,” vol. 53, no. 583, p. 7; Feb. 8, 1890. “Editorial Notes,” vol. 55, no. 648, p. 2; Jan. 7, 1893. “He Held Life Cheaply,” vol. 59, no. 801, p. 6; Apr. 21, 1894. “Hatfield-M’Coy Romance,” vol. 63, no. 868, p. 7.
New York Herald: Jan. 11, 1888. “Murderers Turn Lynchers,” p. 7; Jan. 25, 1888, “Interstate War,” p. 3.
New York Sun (also see Spears in bibliography): Oct. 7, 1888. “An Article Filling…,” p. 14; Nov. 4, 1888. “It Will Be Nip and Tuck,” p. 15; Nov. 4, 1888. “Politics on the Big Sandy,” p. 4; Nov. 4, 1888. “Sport in Wood and Field,” p. 8; Nov. 8, 1888. “Logging on the Big Sandy,” p. 3; Nov. 11, 1888. “Ways of Mountain Lovers,” p. 8; Nov. 29, 1889, “East Kentucky in Terror,” p. 5.
New York Times: Aug. 13, 1882. “General Telegraph News: Offenses Against the Laws,” p. 2; Oct. 19, 1887. “Vigilantes Take a Hand Disposing of a Band of Murderous Robbers,” p. 1; Jan. 13, 1888. “A Deadly Inter-State Feud: Three of the Hatfield Gang Killed by the M’Coys,” p. 3; Mar. 26, 1888. “A Gang of Murderers,” p. 1; July 26, 1888. “A Battle with Outlaws,” p. 2; Nov. 3, 1888. “Rough-and-Tumble Battle,” p. 2; Nov. 18, 1888. “For a Crime Six Years Old,” p. 5; Oct. 28, 1889. “Taken from Jail and Lynched,” p. 1; June 4, 1890. “Charged with Murder,” p. 2; Oct. 15, 1892. “Three Desperadoes Trapped: Detectives Fool Members of the Hatfield-M’Coy Gang,” p. 1; Dec. 7, 1895. “Shot Dead by Jealous Boy,” p. 1; Apr. 3, 1896. “Robert K. McCoy Probably Shot,” p. 1; May 3, 1896. “The Great Interstate Strife of the Last Decade,” p. 26; Nov. 7, 1896. “Capt. Hatfield Arrested,” p. 1; Mar. 11, 1900. “Hatfield Must Go to Prison: Murderer of a Woman in a Feud to Serve Life Sentence,” p. 2; Mar. 30, 1902. “Hatfield Feud Renewed,” p. 1; July 11, 1904. “Pardon for a Feudist,” p. 7; Feb. 23, 1908. “Hatfield Dies Tied to a Tree,” p. 1; Feb. 24, 1908. “Hatfield-M’Coy Feud Has Had 60 Victims,” p. 5; Mar. 3, 1908. “Not a Feudist,” p. 6; Mar. 29, 1914. “Randall McCoy, Feudist, Dies”; July 9, 1921, “Kentucky Feudist Is Slain: Oldest Survivor of McCoy Faction Is Killed in Knife Fight,” p. 12.
New York Tribune: Apr. 8, 1869. Editorial. 1, p. 2.
New York World (also see Crawford in bibliography); Feb. 8, 1888. Evening, “A Fight to the Death,” p. 1; Oct. 7, 1888. “A Bloody Vendetta,” p. 4.
Ohio Democrat: Dec. 8, 1888. “Given a Dosed Apple,” p. 3.
Old Pond Hatfield-McCoy Newsletter. South Williamson Kentucky: Old Pond, Hatfield-McCoy Historical Association and Tug Valley Genealogical Society. Vol. 1, No. 1 Spring/Summer 1998; Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall/Winter 1998, “Letter from Anderson Hatfield to P. A. Cline, Dec. 26, 1886”; Vol. 3, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2000; Vol. 4, No. 2A Fall/Winter 2001; Vol. 5, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2002.
Paducah Sun: July 1, 1903. “A Relic of Feudism,” vol. 10, no. 156, p. 1.
Raleigh Herald: Thursday morning, Aug. 27, 1908. “Moonshiners Are Captured,” p. 1; Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 1909. “Dan Cunningham,” p. 1.
Social Economist: Mar. 1895. “Homicides, American and Southern,” Van Buren Denslow, p. 35.
Sunday World-Herald (Omaha): Nov. 9, 1975. “Hatfields, McCoys Bury Hatchet,” pp. 1, 6a.
Sunny South: Apr. 7, 1901. “Cunningham’s Historic Hunt for the Hatfields: The Story of a Famous Southern Feud and How It Was Ended,” p. 4.
Washington Post: June 1, 2003. “The Fiend in Gray,” Jane Singer, p. W18; Apr. 5, 2007. “Disease Underlies Hatfield-McCoy Feud,” Marilynn Marchione, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501135.html.
Wayne County News: Feb. 24, 1891. “I Ask Your Valuable Paper.”
Welch Daily News: Mar. 27, 1992. “Hatfield Heirloom Warms Local Clan,” Cathy Patton.
Weston Democrat: Nov. 10, 1888. “The Hatfield-McCoy Vendetta.”
Wheeling Intelligencer: Jan. 9, 1888. “A Terrible Story of a Family Feud and Murder,” p. 1; Jan. 10, 1888. “Bunnie and Baby in the Hands of the Jury,” p. 1; Jan. 10, 1888. “Named for Gen. Logan,” p. 3; Jan. 12, 1888. “Roane County Vendetta,” p. 3; Jan. 13, 1888. “A Family Feud,” p. 1; Jan. 16, 1888. “ ‘Bunnie’ at Home,” p. 1; Jan. 20, 1888. “A Terrible Crime,” p. 1; Jan. 20, 1888. “The Vendetta,” p. 1; Jan. 25, 1888. “The Seat of War,” p. 1; Jan. 27, 1888. “The Vendetta of Pike County, Ky., and Logan County, W. Va.,” p. 1; Jan. 28, 1888. “The New York World,” p. 1; Jan. 30, 1888. “The Legislature: Pike County Legislation,” p. 1; Jan. 31, 1888. “The War Is Over,” p. 1; Feb. 1, 1888. “From the Frontier,” p. 1; Feb. 2, 1888. “Hatfield-McCoy Mess,” p. 1; Feb. 2, 1888. “New Developments in the Hatfield-M’Coy Feud”; Feb. 6, 1888. “The Hatfild [sic] M’Coy Feud,” p. 1; Feb. 9, 1888. “Eustace Gibson’s Mission,” p. 1; Feb. 11, 1888. “West Virginia Wins,” p. 1; Feb. 18, 1888. “Old Man Hatfield: His Story of the Fam
ous Feud,” p. 1; Mar. 5, 1888. “Kentucky Is Winner,” p. 1; Mar. 19, 1888. “West Virginia Forests,” p. 4; Apr. 17, 1888. “The Inter-State War,” p. 1; Apr. 19, 1888. “The Hatfield-M’Coy Case,” p. 1; Apr. 24, 1888. “Argument Begun in the Famous Hatfield-McCoy Cases in the United States Supreme Court,” p. 1; June 29, 1888. “Hatfields and M’Coys,” p. 1; Oct. 8, 1888. “Visiting the Hatfields,” p. 1; Oct. 17, 1888. “The Hatfield Gang,” p. 1; Sept. 6, 1889. “Sentenced for Life: Wall Hatfield Convicted of Murdering the Three McCoys”; Oct. 21, 1889. “The Hatfield Feud,” p. 1; Nov. 21, 1889. “ ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield: Arraigned in the United States Court at Charleston,” p. 1; Nov. 23, 1889. “Devil Anse Tells the True History,” p. 1.
Wheeling Register: Jan. 17, 1888. “Outlawry: The Story of the Border War in Logan County,” p. 1; Jan. 26, 1888. “Border Vendetta,” p. 1; Apr. 25, 1888. “The Hatfield Case,” p. 1; Sept. 12, 1888. “They Were Not Tried: The Hatfields Still in the Pike County Jail,” p. 1.
Williamson Daily News (for the special feud anniversary edition, see Sanders in bibliography): Mar. 20, 1998. “The Hatfields, the McCoys and the Railroad”; Mar. 7, 1999. “Mr. Collector: Store Manager Has Vast Collection.”
Documents
Blackburn, Ron G., and Betty Howard. “Ephraim Hatfield Genealogy Chart” and “William McCoy Genealogy Chart.”
Bourland, Charles R., Jr. “Biography of Henry Solomon White (1840–1931).” Unpublished manuscript.
Dec. 17, 1890, letter from Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner to the Sheriff of Pike County, fixing the execution date of Ellison Mounts.
Feb. 18, 1890, note from William Harmon Maynard confirming execution of Ellison Mounts.
Hatfield, Anderson. Letter to Perry Cline, Dec. 26, 1886. University of Kentucky Collections.
Hatfield, Ada. “The Legend of the Hatfields.” Unpublished journal in possession of Hester Keatley.
Howard, Betty. Annotated Genealogies (“Descendants of…”): Nathan Chafin, Tom Chambers, Michael Charles, Perry A. Cline, William Floyd Coleman, Richard Daniels, William Daniels, French Ellis, Richard Ferrell, William “Yankee Bill” Francis, Ephraim Hatfield, Thompson Hatfield, Valentine Hatfield, Nehemiah Hurley, Samuel King, Samuel McCoy, Tolbert McCoy, Alex Messer, Mary Polly Phillips, Elliott “Doc” Rutherford, and Larkin Smith.