and slavery
son in Confederate army
in Three Forks region
Hargis, John Seldon
Hargis, Thomas
Hargis, William
Hargis-Cockrell feud
in fiction
in Jett memoir
in popular memory
and other “mountain feuds”
Harlan County
as “bloody Harlan”
in fiction
Gladwell on. See also Howard-Turner feud
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, William Henry
Hatfield and McCoy feud
and Civil War
in fiction
“Hatfields and McCoys” (as American idiom)
Hazel Green Herald
on Breathitt County violence
as Democratic partisan
and labor strike
on Redwine
and William Strong
Hearst, William Randolph
Hill-Evans feud
Hobsbawm, Eric
Hoffman, Charles Fenno
Hofstadter, Richard
Home Guards
William Strong, misidentified
Hoover, J. Edgar
Howard, Jim
Howard, Wilson
Howard-Turner feud
Gladwell on
Howell, Treva Turner
Hussein, Saddam
intimacy of violence: in civil wars
after war. See also civil wars
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, KY
antebellum economic development
in booster literature
as Confederate mustering grounds
courthouse fire
in fiction
postwar development
as violence setting
Jackson, William (Louisville probate judge)
Jackson Academy
Jackson County, KY
Jackson Hustler: advises prohibition
and antispeculation screed
and Dickey
on “feuds”
office dynamited
praises industry
on Redwine
Jefferson, Thomas
Jennings, Will
Jett, Curtis
memoir
murder trial
post-prison career and death
testifies
Jett-Little feud
Jo (slave owned by Jeremiah South)
Johnson, Andrew
Johnston, J. Stoddard
Jones, James
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Keaton, Buster
Kennedy-Sellers feud
Kentucky: Civil War in
constitutional conventions
county formation
and development
early settlement
as feud locale
internal sectionalism
labor uprisings in
land policy
liquor sales in
politics in
public hangings, legal
during Reconstruction
segregation in
Kentucky General Assembly: and Bradley
and civil rights
and Civil War
and counties
and Democratic losses
and districting
and extralegal violence
and firearm regulation
and Goebel
and land policy
and Jeremiah South
and state militia
Kentucky River. See also Three Forks region
Kentucky [Tri-Weekly] Yeoman
Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee
Kentucky Union Railroad
fails
strike against. See also Lexington & Eastern Railroad (L&E)
Kephart, Horace
Kilburn, Henderson
lynched
as Red String
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Ku Klux Klan (“Kuklux”): in American South
in Breathitt County
in Kentucky
remembered
Laurel County, KY
Lee County, KY
legitimacy
of Breathitt County
crisis of
of elected officials
of “feud” violence
of guerrilla warfare
of state violence
of Strong’s role as a military commander and Unionist
of two-party politics
Leslie, Governor Preston
Letcher, Robert
Lewis, John
Lexington, KY
and Breathitt County
hosts murder trials
Lexington & Eastern Railroad (L&E)
purchased by Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Lexington and Kentucky River
Railroad Company
Louisville Commercial
Louisville Evening Post
Lexington Herald
Lexington Leader
Lilly, Henry C.: as judge
as military commander
Lincoln, William Ellaby
Lindon, James W.
Little, Jason
Little, Jerry
Little, Tom
Louisville, KY
and Democratic convention
and labor strikes
during war
Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N)
Goebel on
purchases Lexington & Eastern
transports Republicans to Frankfort
Louisville Commercial
Louisville Courier-Journal: on Bloody Breathitt and feud
on Frankfort
on Goebel
on Kentucky violence
on New Departure
on William Strong. See also Watterson, Henry
Louisville Legion
lynching: in Breathitt County
and feud
in Kentucky
legitimacy of
in the South
Madison County, KY
Magoffin, Beriah
Magoffin County, KY
Marcum, Abrelia (later Abrelia Tucker): Hargis, accuses
Hargis et al., lawsuit
on Jett’s parole
remarries and leaves Kentucky
Marcum, Edward
Marcum, James Buchanan
on Callahan and Hargis
death compared to Goebel’s
as feud victim
in fiction
murdered
in popular memory
as Republican
Marshall, Humphrey
Martin Tolliver feud. See “Rowan County War”
May, Andrew J.
McCreary, Governor James B.: 1911 reelection
on violence in Breathitt County
McCreary County, KY
McKinley, William: assassination
Breathitt Democrats on
Kentucky Electoral College win
on war with Spain
Mercer, Johnny, records “The Murder of J. B. Markham”
Metcalfe, Leonidas
Metcalfe, Governor Thomas
Mexican War
Moore, Charles C.
Morgan, John Hunt
Morgan County, KY
“Murder of J. B. Markham, The” (song)
Mutzenburg, Charles
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Nixon, Richard
Noble, E. L.
Noble, George Washington
as Confederate soldier
and Ku Klux Klan
and William Strong
after the war
Nunn, Louis
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
Operation: Iraqi Freedom
Orwell, George
“outside world”: and Breathitt County’s economic connections
and feud
in feud fiction
and international feud societies
and local corruption
and local memory
as separate from rural places
and William Strong and Unionists. See also “Bloody Breathitt”
Owsley, William
Owsley County
as Unionist bastion
Pearce, John Ed
Perry County, KY
and Appalachian otherness
Breathitt apportioned from
during Civil War
1879 courthouse riot
French-Eversole feud
Perryville, Battle of
Peter I of Serbia
Pickford, Mary
Pike County
female “white cappers” in
Pilcher, Lewis
political violence
and Indian wars
Ku Klux Klan and
and political parties. See also depoliticization of violence
Polk administration
Pollard, O. H.
Powers, Caleb
Price, Sterling
primordialism: and ethnic determinism
as explanation for violence
and “feuds” in eastern Kentucky
and kinship. See also violent tendencies, inherency of
Rader, John
Randall, Judge William H.: Breathitt County, flees
circuit court judge
Kentucky Union Railroad board member
leaves office
and Governor McCreary
removed from bench
Red Cross
Redfield, Horace V.
Red String(s): in Breathitt courthouse riots
Civil War origins
disavowed by political candidate
in 1880s
1890s, return
inactive
in local memory
in Strong-Amis feud
Redwine, David B.: in Breathitt County
as circuit judge
and Day Law
death
at Music Hall Convention
and Beech Hargis
Republican Party: in Breathitt County
and Goebel affair
in Kentucky
during Reconstruction
Rice, Otis
Riddell, Robert
riots: in Breathitt County
in Lancaster, KY
in Perry County
as violence category
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosencrans, William
Rousseau, Lovell
“Rowan County War” (Martin-Tolliver feud)
Rumsfeld, Donald
sabotage
Sandlin, Willie
Schurz, Carl
Scott, James C.
Scott, Sir Walter
Semple, Ellen
Seventh Kentucky Cavalry (Union)
Sewell, Thomas: Breathitt County, leaves
cofounds Jackson
on Democratic coup
road-building
Shaler, Nathaniel Hale
Sharp, Solomon
Semple, Ellen
Sixth Kentucky Cavalry (Union)
Smith, John
Smith, “Raccoon John”
Smith, Thomas “Bad Tom”: execution interpreted
hanged
Solid South. See also American South; Democratic Party
Sorel, Georges
South, Andrew J.
South, Barry
South, Jeremiah Weldon: background
and Confederacy
death
and Democratic Party in Breathitt County
and Disciples of Christ
land ownership
as legislator
as penitentiary lessee and superintendent
petitions for new county
and Revolutionary land grant
and slavery, and William Strong
transforms Breathitt County area
South, Jerry, Jr.
South, Jerry, III
South, John
South, Samuel (the elder)
South, Samuel
Spencer, George (George Freeman)
Spicer, Asbury
Spurlock, Miles, shot by William Strong
squatters
prevention by corporations
on South family’s land
as Unionists
Stanley, Ralph
Stanton, Edwin, U.S. secretary of war
State Guard
Stone, W. K.
Strong, Ben
Strong, Edward Callahan “Red Ned”
boom company cofounder
as Confederate soldier and partisan
as county judge
Dickey interviews
granddaughter eloping
reelection attempt
“wildlands” sale
Strong, Flint
Strong, Harlan
Strong, Jim
Strong, John
Strong, “Nigger Dick”
Strong, Sam
Strong, William (the elder)
Strong, William: and Callahan
camp meeting, absent
as guerrilla
interviewed
killed
and land claims
peacemaking attempts after war
in popular memory
the press on
and Red Strings
and Smith hanging
Andrew J. South kills
in Strong-Amis feud
and squatters
as Unionist leader
Sumner, Charles
terrorism
Tessy Boys
Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate)
Thompson, E. P.
Thompson, James J.
Three Forks Battalion
Three Forks region
county formation
and economic development
and mountain otherness
settlement
slavery in
vigilantism in
wartime partisanship in. See also Kentucky River
Tilden, Samuel
timber
and boosterism
and river traffic, and squatters
torture
Toynbee, Arnold
Treadway, Elisha
Troublesome Creek Boom Company
Tucker, Abrelia. See Marcum, Abrelia
Turner, Ervine and Marie
Turner, Nat
Twain, Mark
“two Kentuckys”
Unionists: in Breathitt County
and “feuds”
in Kentucky
in slave states
after the war. See also Civil War, American; Home Guards; Red String(s)
U.S.-Mexican War. See Mexican War
violence, communal causes of
and American Civil War
and assassination
and “feuds”
and gender
and lynching
and popular memory
and Reconstruction
violence, endogenous causes of
violence, exogenous causes of
violence, horizontal
violence, political
and Indian wars
Ku Klux Klan and
and political parties. See also depoliticization of violence
violence, varieties of:
counterrevolutionary
interracial
intraracial
legitimacy of
revolutionary. See also assassination, public; civil wars; execution; legitimacy; lynching; political violence; riots; sabotage; terrorism; torture
violent tendencies, inherency of:
Bierce on
curable by modernization
and ethnicity
explained
in “feud belt”
during feud era
Fox on
Gladwell on
and guerrilla warfare
and Jett
and James Jon
es
and lynching
and Abrelia Marcum
and Pilcher
and Reconstruction-era violence
and Republicans
as source of military fighting power
vive voce
Walcott, Marion Post
Waller, Altina
Warner, Charles Dudley
Washington, Booker T.
Watterson, Henry: and Bloody Breathitt
and eastern Kentucky
and feud
and Goebel
and Kentucky’s Klan
law and order stance
and New Departure
and race
on Republican Party’s end
Weber, Max
“Whig Gibraltar”
Republican electorate center
as Unionist stronghold
Whig Party
decline
identity in Kentucky and the South
White, John D.
White, Tom
whitecapping
Wickliffe, Charles
Wilderness Road
Willson, Augustus
Wilmington Race Riot
Wilson, E. Willis
Wilson, Woodrow
Wireman, Charles “Bulldog Charlie”
Woodford County
Woodward, C. Vann
Workingmen’s Party
opposition to convict labor
Works Progress Administration
World War I
World War II
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
“Yaller” Bill (slave owned by Jeremiah South)
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