The Hatfield McCoy Feud after Kevin Costner Rescuing History eBook Tom E Dotson
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For a century we read in books and newspapers and saw on screen, the legend of what is the most famous feud in American history the Hatfields and the McCoys. What we had was legend, and not history, because the story consisted of a few historical events inside several layers of tall tales and fables reported by the yellow journalists of the late nineteenth century.
Except for the raids into West Virginia by Frank Phillips’ posse in 1887-8, all the documented events connected to the feud occurred in Pike County, Kentucky. The feud story, like the Phillips posse, was largely made in Pikeville, in 1888.
The Pikeville stories were manufactured by men who had two primary goals 1) They wanted to see a story published which would facilitate the conviction of Wall Hatfield and the other eight members of the Hatfield faction who were in jail in Pikeville, and, 2) They wanted to justify the two cold-blooded murders that had been committed only days before the reporters arrived by the leader of their posse, Frank Phillips.
Everything in the early writings of the big city reporters was given to them by men with those two interests foremost in their minds.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of the fact that none of the original feud story, which forms the basis for all the succeeding iterations, was taken from the actual record. It is all hearsay, and the hearsay came from the most prejudiced sources imaginable. The Pikeville elite not only had “a dog in the fight,” they had the whole damn pack in it.
The same moneyed interests that owned the newspapers also wanted the vast mineral riches underlying the land occupied by the Hatfields and McCoys, and their reporters’ depictions of the people of Tug Valley as immoral and violent barbarians helped to make the swindle more palatable to the public.
The Hatfield and McCoy feud is probably unique among all the events in history in that writers of feud-based fiction are more constrained than are writers of feud history. The good fiction writer is always careful to avoid writing something that is patently impossible. A fiction writer would never say that twelve hundred people regularly attended a church in an isolated mountain hollow that had only two dozen members. A “True Story” of the feud, can say that and still have reviewers from prestigious media organs laud its factual accuracy.
As fiction can be made just as exciting as the screenwriter or author desires, the 2012 TV epic, "Hatfields & McCoys," and the recent fictional ‘history’’ books are great entertainment, but they are not history.
Some of the books that followed the Kevin Costner movie contain an even greater ratio of fable to facts than did the movie. With a rare combination of facts and humor, this author calls them all to task.
Tom E. Dotson, holder of a Cornell masters degree in labor history, and descended from both the Hatfields and McCoys, asks the question “When only five Hatfields (along with three McCoys) were among the twenty men indicted for the vigilante slaying of the three McCoys in 1882, and only nine of the forty who rode with the Phillips posse in 1887-8 were McCoys, why is it called ‘The Hatfield and McCoy feud’?”
With solid research and a unique insight, Dotson answers that question.
The Hatfield McCoy Feud after Kevin Costner Rescuing History eBook Tom E Dotson
Mr Dotson provides a cogent and complellng argument as to what actually happened (and most importantly,WHY) during the alleged "Hatfield-McCoy feud". This work provides what I believe is the best explanation of what took place and how it was spun out of all realityinto the "story" we are familiar with today. After reading this, the "events" and their literary treatment comes to make well-reasoned sense. Most highly recommended.
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The Hatfield McCoy Feud after Kevin Costner Rescuing History eBook Tom E Dotson Reviews
Amazing book just knowing how people lived in those days without all the modern technology we have now..give lots of credit how women had to endure so much..it's a real look into the life's of the passed.
Exceptionally written and researched. Mr. Dotson thank you for clearing up some of the inconsistences. After reading several Feud stories and seeing the variety of takes on the events, Mr. Dotson has shined the light on this subject.
This book was very informative!
The movie was good but so many untruths were added just to make it more interesting!
I appreciated Tom E Dotson setting the record straight!
Growing up on the many tales of the family feud, the many years of cold calculating murders of many young and old,male or female senseless death's ,always trying to understand how this could come about over a pig. Only for the story to change, over a couple as Romeo and Juliet. Then later on to hear that it was over a stabbing of a young man. Always with the underlying cause being that they where uneducated,backwoods hillbillies,from back in the sticks. No more educated than a wolf or coyote.
I find that this story is more of the truth about these families and the area than anything other book I have read and stands more for reasoning, it doesn't take a genius to understand,just common sense.
I love the fact that he calls out all the ones that wrote their nonsense which was published as truth and history.
Here is finally someone who is trying to set the record straight. To me, he has proved himself far more worthy as a historian than all the others that I have read their work on these families of the Hatfield' s and McCoy' s never ending feud.
I am proud to be a West Virginian.
I was not impressed with this book and can't be anything but more confused after reading this. This feud involved so many people it is totally hard to tell who's who especially in this book. The author states his Mother is a McCoy so I figure this to mostly be there side of the story. But most confusing of all was that the gist of this book is to deny there ever was a Hatfield McCoy feud. Now, personally I just find that very hard to believe. He claims the whole feud to just be a story made up by feud writers over the years. Really in my view there is just too much history out there to doubt there wasn't a feud.. If your aren't confused about the Hatfield McCoy feud, you will be after you read this book. The author has many documents in this book which are very hard to understand and added to my confusion. He also states many times, that he can't prove this or that, but it is his belief that such and such is what he thinks happened. So you can read this book and then you be the judge.
Confusing and boring.
Enjoyed the quick read,interesting information involving some of the less famous characters.A completely opposite character analasys from what I read previously.
Mr Dotson provides a cogent and complellng argument as to what actually happened (and most importantly,WHY) during the alleged "Hatfield-McCoy feud". This work provides what I believe is the best explanation of what took place and how it was spun out of all reality
into the "story" we are familiar with today. After reading this, the "events" and their literary treatment comes to make well-reasoned sense. Most highly recommended.
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