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Hatfield & McCoy Hokum in Books

The New Year’s Raid: History versus Story

Where the Hatfield and McCoy feud is concerned, history is a story. It is, in fact, a conglomeration of stories by more than a dozen writers. A half dozen or so of those writers are designated as “historians” by the feud industry. There are no known standards by which the designation is made; one just knows that a given writer is a “historian” when feud industry approved writers refer to him/her as a “feud historian.”

This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.”  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales

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Dean King Hokum

Wedding Bells for Johnse and Nancy: but NOT in Pikeville

In his “True Story” of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, wherein he promised in his Author’s Note to “deflate the legends and restore accurate historical detail,” (pp. xii-xiii) Dean King says that the marriage of Johnse Hatfield and Nancy McCoy was opposed by Nancy’s Uncle, Perry Cline, and “firmly opposed” by Nancy’s Mother, Martha (Patty) Cline McCoy, who actually “forbade her daughter to marry Johnse.”

King then says, “Nancy, who was known for her strong will, did it anyway, in Pikeville on May 14.”[i]

The two documents posted here show plainly that each of King’s statements is false.

This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.”  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales

 

[i] The quoted words and the references to Kng are on page 83 of his book, The Feud.

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Dean King Hokum

Historical Research Refutes the “Feud Story”

In the midst of all the trash being spewed out by the “feud industry,” serious people are doing serious research– and they are finding a lot of historical documents.  The “feud industry” does not like serious historical research, because every document uncovered makes a lie of the supersized feud tale, and buttresses the work of serious scholars such as Altina Waller.

This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.”  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales