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On January 2, 1902,
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
published Edwin Carlisle Litsey's “Kentucky Feuds and Their Causes.” It is of questionable value. J.S. Johnson's “Romance and Tragedy of Kentucky Feuds,”
Leslie's Monthly,
September 1899, isn't much better. I might also mention Charles G. Mutzenberg's
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies
(New York: Fenno Company, 1901), J.A. Burns's
Mountain Crucible
(privately printed, 1928), and Darrell Richardson's
Mountain Rising
(Oneida, Ky.: Oneida Mountaineer Press, 1986). Mutzenberg at least tries to stick to facts and does not ridicule the mountain people. Richardson's book, an account of the founding of the Oneida Institute, offers a better description of Clay County and its people than any other work I found.

Also to be included in any list of literature on the feuds are: Hambleton Tapp and James C. Klotter,
Decades of Discord, 1865-1900
(Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1981); Ross A. Webb,
Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979); Lloyd G. Lee,
A Brief History of Kentucky
(Berea: Kentucky Imprints, 1989); and Caleb Powers's
My Own Story
(Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1905). Powers's account of his trial strengthens the impression that he and Jim Howard were railroaded for the murder of William Goebel.

James Klotter's “The Tolliver-Martin Feud, 1884-87” (
Filson Club History Quarterly,
January 1968), and his “Feuds in Appalachia: An Overview” (
Filson Club History Quarterly,
July 1982), are helpful. Klotter is very even-handed, and tries to stick to facts.

Generally speaking, however, I found interviews preferable to the books and articles available.

Index

Abner, John

Adams, Greene

Adkins, Joe

Aikman, Big John; as villain; and Marcum-Hargis War in Breathitt County; in Wright-Jones feud (Letcher County); out of penitentiary; killing of Captain William Strong

Allen, E.B.

Allen, Ethan

Allen, Hudge

Allen, Job

Allen, Squire

Allen, Whick

Amburgey, Ambrose

American Hotel and Saloon (Morehead)

Amis, John

Amis, Wiley

Amis family

Amis-Strong feud (Breathitt County)

Anderson, Dr.

Arlington Hotel (Jackson)

Asher, Dillion

Asher, Pauline

Ashley, Jim

Ashley, Mich

Auxier, A.J.

Bach, J.J.C.

Back, James

Bailey, Alexander

Bailey, G. Pearl

Bailey, John K.

Bailey, Pearl

Baileys: beating of Wilson Howard

Baker, Abner, Jr.

Baker, Abner, Sr.

Baker, Adoniram

Baker, Allen

Baker, Anse

Baker, Baldy George; shooting of, by James Howard; elected Clay County attorney; and agreement with James Howard; fifteen sons; burial services; murder trial

Baker, Ben

Baker, Beverly

Baker, Bobby

Baker, Bowling

Baker, Dee

Baker, Dewey

Baker, Emily Lyttle (Mrs. Thomas)

Baker, Emma

Baker, Frank

Baker, Gardner

Baker, Garrard

Baker, Horace

Baker, Ibby

Baker, James; as villain; surrendering for trial; indicted for murder of Howards; letter to governor; trial, June

Baker, John; as witness to killing of father; fight with Beverly White; arson charges dismissed; trial in Winchester; killing of; with Frank Clark

Baker, Judah Robert (Juder Bob)

Baker, Little Tom

Baker, Lizzie Goforth (Mrs. Beverly)

Baker, Lloyd

Baker, Lushaba Howard (Mrs. Wiley)

Baker, Mary.
See
Bates, Mary Baker

Baker, Matilda (Mrs. William)

Baker, Robert (Boston Bob)

Baker, Rose McCollum (Mrs. James)

Baker, Sarah (Mrs. Robert)

Baker, Sid

Baker, Susan White (Mrs. Abner Baker, Jr.)

Baker, Thena (Mrs. Gardner)

Baker, Thomas (Bad Tom); education of; as villain; surrendering for trial on June; married Emily Lyttle; and education; and bootlegging; and peddler incident; boyhood; events leading to Crane Creek clash; and fight at Crane Creek; demand for trial in murder of Howards; thirteen sons; trial in June; burial services for father, Baldy George; arson charges dismissed; Lushaba Baker poisoning incident; killing of Will White; acquitted of Howards' murder; found guilty for murder of Will White; gang shoots up town; mentioned in letter to governor by John G. White; writes to governor responding to White; killing of; wake of

Baker, Wiley

Baker, William

Baker family

Baker-Howard feud Clay County

Ballou, C.A.,
A Cumberland Vendetta

Banks, Mr. (Owsley County)

Baptist Church

Barger, Mr. (killed by Ku Kluxers)

Barr, John

Barrett, George

Barrett, Jesse

Barrett, Rachel

Bates, Daniel

Bates, Mary Baker (Mrs. Daniel)

Bath County

Baugh family: and salt wells

Baumgartner, Stewart

Beaumont Hotel (Hazard)

Beckham, J.C.W

Bell, Josh

Bell County

Benge, William (Booger)

Benge family

Bennett, Robert

Bentley, Mack

Big Creek (Perry County)

Big Sandy River, Tug Fork

Big Sandy Valley

Black, James

Blackberry Creek (Pike County)

Black Diamond Railroad

Blair, John G.

Blair, Juanita:
Days of Anger, Days of Tears

Blanton, J.T.

Blanton, William, Jr.

Blevins, William

“Bloody Breathitt,”

“Bloody Harlan,”

Bluegrass region

Boone, Daniel

Boston Gap, Ky

Boston Gap cemetery (Clay County)

Bowling, Alvin

Bowling, Jeff

Bowling, John

Bowling, Little Steve

Bowling family

Boyd, Robert

Boyle County

Bradley, Joseph P.

Bradley, Solomon

Bradley, Gov. W.O.; pardoning of killers; and Breathitt County; and Clay County

Brawner, Elizabeth Garrard.
See
White, Elizabeth Garrard Brawner

Brawner, Nancy.
See
Garrard, Nancy Brawner

Brawner family

Breathitt County

Breckinridge, W.C.P.

Brittain, Carlo

Brittain, Elizabeth.
See
Turner, Elizabeth Brittain

Brittain family

Brockman, Frank

Brown, Fred;
Days of Anger, Days of Tears

Brown, George

Brown, John Y., Sr.

Brown, William

“Brownies” Party

Bryan, Captain

Buckner, Gov. Simon: letter in 1889 from Robards; and Harlan County; and Pike County; and Perry County; and Rowan County

Bundy, Jim

Burchell, Jim

Burchell, J.R.

Burchell, Mary Howard (Mrs. Toulmin)

Burchell, Toulmin

Burnett, John Wesley

Burnett-Little feud (Breathitt County)

Burns, James Anderson (“Burns of the Mountains”)

Bush, George Alex

Butler, D.K.

Callahan, Alice

Callahan, Ed: land as factor in feuds; as villain; grandson of Wilson Callahan; logging dispute with James Deaton; and lynching of Hen Kilburn; election as sheriff in Breathitt County; accusing James B. Marcum of murder; witness to Jim Cockrell's shooting; witness to shooting of James Marcum; acquittal for murder of Marcum; sued by James Marcum's widow; shooting of

Callahan, Wilson

Callahan family: and Cattle Wars

Callahan-Strong feud (Breathitt County)

Campbell, Colin

Campbell, Frank

Campbell, Holland

Campbell, John

Campbell family

Campton, Ky.

Cantrill, James

Capital Hotel (Frankfort)

Cardwell, Jerry

Card well, T.P.

Carey, James

Carey Hotel (Morehead)

Carmack, James

Carpenter, Charles

Carrollton Democrat

Carr's Fork (Knott County)

Carter County

Caruth, Asher

Castleman, Adjutant General

Cattle Wars

Caudill, Harry

Caudill, Louise

Caudill family

Cave Run Lake

Cawood, Berry

Cawood, Hiram

Cawood, John

Cawood, Joseph

Cawood, Mr. (allied with Turners)

Cawood, Stephen

Cawood, W.P.

Cawood family

Centers, Tom

Centre College of Danville

Chambers, Tom

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Chestnut (killed by John Ed White)

Christian, Moses

Christian Church

Christy Creek (Rowan County)

Cincinnati Enquirer

Civil War: as factor in feuds; and Breathitt County feuds; postwar policies; and T.T. Garrard; aftermath in Kentucky

Clark, A.N.

Clark, Frank

Clark, Thomas D.

Clark County

Clay, Elizabeth (Mrs. James Turner)

Clay, Green

Clay, John

Clay County

Clay County Republican

Clay's Ferry

Clem, Hezekiah

Clem, John

Cline, Perry

Clover Fork (Harlan County)

Coates, Harold Wilson

Cockrell, Jim

Cockrell, Logan

Cockrell, Tom

Cockrell family

Cockrell-Hargis feud in Breathitt County

Cockrill.
See
Cockrell

Coldiron, John D.

Coldiron store (Collins Fork)

Cole, A.E.

Collins (black shot on Town Branch)

Collins, Cotton

Collins, C.W.

Collins, Dan

Collins, James

Collins Fork (Clay County)

Combs, Bert T.

Combs, Bill

Combs, Breckinridge

Combs, Jack

Combs, Jessie

Combs, Josiah

Combs, Leslie, III

Combs, Nick

Combs, Old Danger

Combs, Shade

Combs, Susan.
See
Eversole, Susan Combs

Combs family

Cook, King

Cooper, Hiram

Cope, Thomas L.

Cornet, Buck Combs

Cornett, Bob

Cottage Hotel (Morehead)

Cox, D.B.

Craig, Bob

Craig, Bud

Crane Creek (Clay County)

Crisp, Asbury

Cumberland Mountains

Cumberland River

Cumberland Vendetta, A
(Ballou)

Cundiff, Theo

Cutshin Creek (Leslie County)

Daniel Boone National Forest

Daniels, Bill

Daniels, Mary McCoy (Mrs. Bill)

Danville

Davidson, Felix

Davidson, Henry

Davidson, Ira

Davidson, Mr. (with Howard raft trip)

Davis, Anse Baker

Day, Boone

Day, John

Day, Mr. (allied with Howards)

Day, Tom Allen

Day family

Days of Anger, Days of Tears
(Blair and Brown)

Deaton, Bob

Deaton, James

Deaton family: and Callahan-Strong feud

Democratic Party; as factor in feuds; in Breathitt County; in Pike County; in Rowan County; in Clay County

Dempsey, Bill

DeZarn, John

DeZarn, Morgan

DeZarn, Stanley

Dickey, John Jay; at hanging of Bad Tom Smith; and diaries; preaching in Clay County; preaching in Breathitt County; on shooting of Baldy George Baker; on burial services for Baldy George; on burial services for Will White; on burial services for Frank Parker; on Manchester as dangerous and licentious place

Dishman, John

Drake, George

Duff, John

Duff family

Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum

East Tennessee College, Knoxville

Egerton, John:
Generations

Elliott County

Ellis, Doc

Emancipation Proclamation

Eversole, Abner (Perry County)

Eversole, Bud (Clay County)

Eversole, Harry (Perry County)

Eversole, Jacob (Perry County)

Eversole, John (Clay County)

Eversole, Joseph (Perry County); as attorney; social class; as hero; as merchant of Hazard; feud escalates; truce of sorts; shooting of Gambrell; killing of; Bad Tom confesses killing

Eversole, Judge

Eversole, Susan Combs (Mrs. Joseph)

Eversole family (Clay County)

Eversole family (Perry County)

Eversole-French feud (Perry County)

Ewen, Benjamin

Farmers, Ky.

Federal Hill (“My Old Kentucky Home”)

Fee, Holly

Feltner, Mose

Ferguson, Lee

Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Ecomomic Change in Appalachia
(Waller)

Fields, Bob

Fields, Jess

Fields, Mr. (Harlan County)

Finley, John

Fisher, James

Fisher family

Fleming County

Flinchum, David

Floyd, John

Floyd County

Forrester, Colonel

Forty-Niners

Foster, Stephen Collins

Fouts, John

Frankfort, Ky. passim

Frazier, Boone

Freeman, Daniel

Freeman, William

French, Benjamin Fulton.
See
French, Fulton

French, Fulton; as attorney; social class; as villain; attorney for Jett and White in Breathitt County; as merchant of Hazard; recruitment of Bad Tom Smith; ruling Perry County; brought to trial; empty victory; shooting of

French, Susan Lewis (Mrs. Fulton)

French-Eversole feud (Perry County)

Fusionist Party (Breathitt County)

Gaither, Capt.

Gamble, Alfred

Gambrell, Bill

Garrard, Daniel

Garrard, Edward

Garrard, Gilbert

Garrard, James

Garrard, Lucinda Burnam Lees (second Mrs. T.T.)

Garrard, Lucinda Toulmin (Mrs. Daniel)

Garrard, Mary (married to son of Hugh White)

Garrard, Nancy Brawner (first Mrs. T.T.)

Garrard, T.T; as hero; at last Bad Tom Baker trial; son of Daniel and Lucinda; memoirs; in politics; and surrender of Abner Baker, Jr.; marriage to Lucinda Burnam Lees; service in Mexican War; travels; joins Union army; political involvement; and events leading to Crane Creek clash; backs Bakers; family in state of crisis; and truce with Whites