Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction Bruce E. Stewart 1
1 Violence, Statecraft, and Statehood in the Early Republic: The State of Franklin, 1784-1788 Kevin T. Barksdale 25
2 "Devoted to Hardships, Danger, and Devastation": The Landscape of Indian and White Violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1753-1800 Kathryn Shively Meier 53
3 "Our Mad Young Men": Authority and Violence in Cherokee Country Tyler Boulware 80
4 The "Ferocious Character" of Antebellum Georgia's Gold Country: Frontier Lawlessness and Violence in Fact and Fiction John C. Inscoe 99
5 "A Possession, or an Absence of Ears": The Shape of Violence in Travel Narratives about the Mountain South, 1779-1835 Katherine E. Ledford 125
6 Violence against Slaves as a Catalyst in Changing Attitudes toward Slavery: An 1857 Case Study in East Tennessee Durwood Dunn 145
7 "These Big-Boned, Semi-Barbarian People": Moonshining and the Myth of Violent Appalachia, 1870-1900 Bruce E. Stewart 180
8 "Deep in the Shades of Ill-Starred Georgia's Wood": The Murder of Elder Joseph Standing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia Mary Ella Engel 207
9 Race and Violence in Urbanizing Appalachia: The Roanoke Riot of 1893 Rand Dotson 237
10 Assassins and Feudists: Politics and Death in the Bluegrass and Mountains of Kentucky T. R. C. Hutton 272
11 "A Hard-Bitten Lot": Nonstrike Violence in the Early Southern West Virginia Smokeless Coalfields, 1880-1910 Paul H. Rakes Kenneth R. Bailey 314
12 "The Largest Manhunt in Western North Carolina's History": The Story of Broadus Miller Kevin W. Young 340
13 The Murder of Thomas Price: Image, Identity, and Violence in Western North Carolina Richard D. Starnes 380
List of Contributors 397
Index 401
