People’s Choice Award – Lies, Damned Lies and Feud Tales

Two thirds of Mingo County, West Virginia is owned today by five out-of-state coal and land companies. The Forestland Group controls over three and one half million acres of land in the US. Seven Hundred twenty-three thousand acres are in West Virginia and Kentucky. As the map shows, it is not a great overstatement to say that they “own West Virginia.” http://www.forestlandgroup.com/about.html

From the company’s website, we see:

Craig R. Kaderavek
Senior Director of Forest Operations-Appalachian Region

According to Dean King, Mr. Kaderavek and one of his associates (p.348) took the intrepid explorer/writer on a tour of the Valley in the summer of 2009. At the mouth of Thacker Creek, the group was fired upon by the barbaric descendants of the feudists. (p.xii)

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

The Library of Virginia’s 2014 People’s Choice Award for non-fiction has gone to a book that is probably the biggest literary hoax since Clifford Irving’s bogus “Autobiography of Howard Hughes” more than forty years ago.

This is the first in a series of posts I will make which will prove conclusively—by the record—that Dean King’s “The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story” is one of the biggest collections of falsehood ever sold as non-fiction.

If I covered all of King’s distortions of the record and outright lies, this series would be longer than King’s four hundred thirty page book; therefore, I will cover only a dozen or so of the most egregious examples of the perfidy of this “historian.”

This story can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://tinyurl.com/ycqlg3oy