The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) has put hundreds of pages on their website pertaining to the “Hatfield and McCoy feud. https://dspace.kdla.ky.gov/jspui/handle/10602/15610
Let’s look at one of the documents on the KDLA site, and see if there are answers to important questions that are not even asked in the feud books. The letter from Samuel Clay, advocating a pardon for Elias Hatfield, appears in no feud book.
That letter has caused me to spend more time in research than any other document on the site.
Why would one of the richest men in the state of Kentucky, a resident of Lexington, be writing a letter asking for a pardon for a “nobody” mountaineer from Logan County, West Virginia?
This story can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://tinyurl.com/ycqlg3oy