Christal Cooper
*2,778 Words 4,176
Words (with excerpt)
The
Writing Life of Dean King, and
The
Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys: The True Story
Dean King’s The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys: The True Story, published in May 2013 by
Little Brown and Company (http://www.littlebrown.com), has been a
critical and commercial success: A winner of the Library of Virginia 2014
People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction, “Critics Choice for the year 2013” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch, and
Amazon.com Top 10 History Book of May 2013.
The Feud (http://www.amazon.com/Feud-Hatfields-McCoys-True-Story-ebook/dp/B008TUOA3Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421533644&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Feud)
is now reaching to audiences of the movie and documentary
arena: King is the chief storyteller of History Channel’s two-hour special
documentary The Hatfields and The McCoys, that accompanied the
mini-series, narrated by Kevin Costner; and a producer of the 2013 reality show
The Hatfields &
McCoys: White Lightning.
King learned about the Hatfields &
the McCoys as a child when he looked at newspaper cartoons about the feuding
families and read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
King’s childhood memories are very different from the memories of the Hatfields
and the McCoys he writes about in The Feud, the most famous
family feud in all of history (perhaps including Shakespeare’s feuding families
Montague and Capulet.)
“I don’t typically closely identify with the characters in my work.
They are wholly separate people from me, real people. I would love to have
hunted bear with Devil Anse, listened to Wall tell a tale by the fire, had a
drink of ’shine with Johnse, or shared a dance with Nancy McCoy. I enjoyed
getting to know all of them through the stories we have and reimagining them
while writing my account.”
Dean King’s, 52, first memories are: exploring the bomb shelter at the
house he lived in as a kid; being the patient in the game of Doctor he played
with older neighborhood girls; playing in the neighborhood alley in his Red
Rover with the guys who lived across the street; wrestling with his dog Max;
and attending kindergarten at the Westhampton Public School, where he wrote his
first book Boo Boo the Bear.
“The wonderful teachers helped me turn it into a real book. We
stretched burlap across cardboard to make the covers and we sewed a binding for
it. I’ll never forget how hard my father laughed when he read it.
The main character tells the reader at the end that he disappeared and was
never seen again.”
The characters never seen again are similar to the true-life characters of The
Feud: some of whom were brutally murdered.
As a young child King would visit the Belmont Branch Library in Richmond,
Virginia, and read about all kinds of true-life characters, from the violent
Genghis Kahn to the angel of the battlefield Clara Barton.
“Deeply seated in my soul is the musty smell of those red-covered
biographies that I pulled out of the stacks at the library, where my mother
used to take me to get books to keep me occupied in the summer.”
It wasn’t until he attended St. Christopher’s School (http://www.stchristophers.com/about)
that he faced challenges that would help him become the adventure history
writer he is today.
“I had great English teachers there, namely George Squires, who liked the
conciseness of my writing and gave me higher grades for it than the “brains” in
the class, which at that age is incredibly inspiring, and Ron Smith (https://www.facebook.com/ron.smith.5891004?fref=ts),
who is the current Virginia Poet Laureate. Ron is now the writer in residence
at the school, but back then he was a plain old teacher and football coach. He
played college football and was physically imposing, as well as an
intellectually rigorous guy. He showed us that writing and a deep interest in
literature wasn’t for sissies. He also gave me the lowest grade I scored in
high school, not long after I tore the tendon off a bone in my finger and had
to dictate my term paper to my mother, because I couldn’t write. Ron showed me
that there are no excuses in life. He is still a friend.
So is Andy Smith, one of my history teachers and my lacrosse coach. Andy has traveled with me to Ireland and China on research trips. He has always provided great counsel and friendship.”
So is Andy Smith, one of my history teachers and my lacrosse coach. Andy has traveled with me to Ireland and China on research trips. He has always provided great counsel and friendship.”
King attended University of North Carolina (http://www.northcarolina.edu)
where he majored in English while playing varsity lacrosse on an NCAA
Championship team.
He
was also a member of the Order of the
Golden Fleece (the university’s oldest and highest honorary society)
and the Order of
the Grail-Valkyries, for contributing to the life of the university
community.
The
most important thing that happened to King while attending the University of
North Carolina is meeting his wife Jessica, the first one to critique and edit
his work.
His first published work was during his University of North Carolina days,
where he was editor of the undergraduate literary magazine Cellar Door (http://cellardoor-unc.tumblr.com/about)
and involved in some arts planning on campus.
“In
terms of becoming a professional writer, I was very practical. I had no idea
how to get published, or how to write for that matter. I just knew I wanted to
do it. So I thought, heck, anyone can do a Q&A interview, right? We were
having a festival, so I interviewed some of the visiting artists, among them
William Wegman, the famous photographer (http://www.wegmanworld.com), and
Greer Lankton, a transsexual sculptor (https://www.facebook.com/GreerLanktonArchivesMuseum?fref=photo).
I published these in the Carolina Quarterly (http://thecarolinaquarterly.com).
I then sent them to Andy Warhol’s magazine, Interview (http://www.interviewmagazine.com).
The next thing I knew I had a freelance editorial job at the coolest place in
New York City.”
After
receiving his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from UNC, King traveled outside
of the United States for the first time.
“Among
other things, I roamed from Copenhagen to Lisbon to Mikonos, pitched hay in
Bordeaux, painted a house near Avignon, worked as a room service boy in London,
and walked across Northern England. The experience opened my eyes in many
ways.”
His
first major hike—the Coast to Coast Walk, 190 miles across England, from Robin
Hood’s Bay to St. Bee’s Head—was inviting to King, since he was otherwise stuck
at a job as a sales clerk in the Bond Street tube station in London.
He
then attended New York University (http://www.nyu.edu), where he wrote poetry
and his first fiction piece. He received his Master’s In English and
studied novel writing with John A Williams (http://aalbc.com/authors/johna.htm),
Gloria Naylor (http://aalbc.com/authors/gloria.htm), and
E. L. Doctorow (http://www.eldoctorow.com).
During
his New York University days he was the free-lance editor and writer at Andy
Warhol’s Interview, Esquire (http://www.esquire.com), Art
& Antiques (http://www.artandantiquesmag.com),
Connoisseur (http://www.connoisseur-magazine.com),
the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com), Travel
& Leisure (http://www.travelandleisure.com/toc),
and American Express Publishing (http://www.amexpubcustommedia.com). He was a founding editor of Southern
Farmer’s Almanac (http://www.almanac.com)
and Bubba Magazine; a contributing editor of Men’s Journal (http://www.mensjournal.com);
director of book publishing for National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com);
editor of the Heart of Oak Sea Classics
series (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?series_id=188612),
published by Henry Holt; and wrote a series of inn-to-inn walks for Mid-Atlantic
County Magazine. He
currently contributes to Outside (http://www.outsideonline.com),
Garden & Gun (http://subscribe.gardenandgun.com/Garden-and-Gun/Magazine),
and Virginia Living (http://www.virginialiving.com).
“Basically,
I kept putting myself in harm’s way, taking on challenges that I was hardly prepared
for but somehow got the job done. My first feature story was about Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill for Connoisseur, then a big-time NYC arts and
culture magazine. A very kindly editor, Matthew Gurewitsch (http://www.beyondcriticism.com),
whom I met through my Interview boss, told me that my story needed a lot
of work. He said he could edit it, but instead, he wanted me to. He basically
sat down with me and patiently walked me through the process, helping me to
understand what I needed to do to get better. That doesn’t always happen in New
York City.”
He
always found time to expand his experiences and education by reading
voraciously, usually Southern realism novels: William Faulkner, Cormac
McCarthy (http://www.cormacmccarthy.com)
(https://www.facebook.com/CormacMcCarthyAuthor),
Breece D.J. Pancake (https://www.facebook.com/breece.pancake),
Daniel Woodrell (http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Woodrell/e/B000APB2WA/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1421529054&sr=8-2-ent),
and Tim Gautreaux (http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Woodrell/e/B000APB2WA/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1421529054&sr=8-2-ent)
are favorites.
His
other influences include the epic series by J.R.R. Tolkien (http://www.tolkiensociety.org),
Patrick O’Brian’s 21-novel Aubrey-Maturin series (http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=4929),
Hillary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Novels (http://hilary-mantel.com), and George R.R.
Martin’s Game of Thrones (http://www.georgerrmartin.com) (https://www.facebook.com/georgerrmartinofficial/timelin)
The
prolific King wrote and edited nine books throughout the 1990s and early 2000s:
The Penny Pincher’s Almanac Handbook for Modern Frugality (1992);
A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring
Tales (1995); Paper Clips to Printers: The Cost-Cutting
Sourcebook for Your Home Office (1996); Every Man Will Do His Duty:
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts From the Age of Nelson (1997); Cancer
Combat: Survivors Share Their Guerrilla Tactics to Help You Win the Fight
of Your Life (1998); Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed (2000);
Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete
Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O’Brian (2000); Skeletons
on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004); and Unbound:
a True Story of War, Love, and Survival (2010).
It
wasn’t until 2008, while he was writing Unbound: A True Story of
War, Love, and Survival, that he thought of writing about the Hatfield
and McCoy Feud.
“My
brother-in-law Morgan Entrekin and John F Kennedy Jr., when head of the popular
political magazine George, had come up with the idea of a new retelling
of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, based on Kennedy’s fascination with the feud and
how these two families appeared to be living outside the law for so long. Their
plan never worked out, but Morgan maintained an interest in the story. Knowing
that I have family roots in West Virginia, he suggested I take the subject on.”
King started looking into it and soon knew
there was a new and more truthful story to be told, and started conducting
research for the book.
He,
accompanied by Hatfield family members, took numerous trips via ATVs and
horseback, to the areas where the feud battles occurred along the Tug River in
portions of Kentucky and West Virginia.
“I
tried to find a route to ride on horseback from Matewan, West Virginia, to
Pikeville, Kentucky, which would have been the journey that Randall McCoy took
when he rode there for help after his three sons were taken by the Hatfields.
But a large highway has been blasted through the area and the route is no
longer traversable.”
He
also committed numerous hours of research on every factual piece of information
he could find from libraries, courthouses, newspapers (though sometimes wildly
inaccurate), family letters and diaries, other documents, and conducted
extensive interviews.
One of the things King learned was that the Hatfield-McCoy feud was not the only family feud occurring at that time; there were other feuds, but what made the Hatfield-McCoy feud different and legendary was how personal it was.
“It
derived from the Civil War, when many depredations occurred. Before that the
two families had lived together peacefully in the Tug River Valley for several
generations. During the war, the border they lived on saw brutal raiding back
and forth. Because both sides knew each other, they would bitterly resent the
violence and blame each other for it. This and the fact that the families would
still be living near each other after the war would create a volatile and
fascinating scenario in which the feud played out.”
King
faced many challenges while writing The Feud; two of which were
to be a good historian and knowing when to stop writing; but the greatest
challenge was separating fact from fiction.
“There is no way to separate all of the myth from fact, which might be part
of the reason why we are so intrigued by the story. There is still a lot of
mystery and historical spin around the events. The families did not want to get
prosecuted for their transgressions, so secrecy and misdirection were implicit.
Many parts of the families would not talk about the feud for generations after
it occurred.”
There is one fact – the events of 9/11 played an important role in ending the
Hatfield-McCoy Feud: in 2003, both families signed an official peace treaty for
the sole purpose that if America was attacked, both families would unify to
fight for their country side by side, unlike what happened in the Civil War.
“This treaty reflected more than a century of mostly peaceful relations since
the heat of the feud. Now, in a discussion of any given issue regarding
the history of the feud, you are likely to hear a good deal of disagreement and
some very pointed words.”
King
heard pointed words from members of the Cline family who were upset by the
portrayal of Perry Cline, the cousin of Randolph “Randall” McCoy (portrayed by
Bill Paxton), in the History Channel mini-series Hatfields & McCoys,
starring Kevin Costner as William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield and Robert
Vibert as Perry Cline.
“They thought Perry Cline got a fair shake in my book, which was
gratifying. I was happy that the family could find peace in the pages of
my account after being so upset by the unfair treatment in the
mini-series. I knocked off the last two paragraphs of one chapter of the
hardcover edition and added four new ones to the paperback, based on new
information sent to me by the Cline family.”
The brothers Perry and Jake Cline were involved in the timber business too, and
it brought them nose-to-nose with Devil Anse. It was not a harmonious
relationship. The Clines were brothers-in-law of the murdered Harmon McCoy and
first cousins of Charlie Mounts and Asbury and Flem Hurley, all also killed in
the war. It was their slave Mose—charged with looking after them by their
dying father—who had put a price on Devil Anse's head and who died for it.
According to the Clines, since as early as 1861, Devil Anse had been logging on
land along Grapevine Creek that belonged to them. Conversely, Devil Anse
claimed a right to the land based on an alleged survey by Big Eph and even
started building cabins there. In 1869 the two brothers and Devil Anse met at
the mouth of Grapevine Creek to try to settle their differences. Perry leaned
toward selling their property to Devil Anse, but Jake stalked off from the
meeting grumbling that Devil Anse was trying to take their inheritance "by
the muzzle of a gun."
A few years later, Perry and Devil Anse agreed to a trade, resolving matters,
or so they thought. In return for his tracts along Grapevine Creek and the
Tug—prime property including his family's Old Home Place, where Peter and Rich
Jake were buried—Perry would receive land across the border in Pike County.
Devil Anse immediately moved into the Clines' ancestral house, but the trade
was not recorded because in the meantime he filed a lawsuit against the two
brothers. He had been surveying his new holdings when he came across them
timbering a piece of land that he wrongly claimed belonged to the Cline parcel
that he now owned.
After five years and a court-ordered survey, the trade was finally registered
in the spring of 1877, but the trespassing and illegal timbering dispute
persisted. Devil Anse became the official owner of Perry Cline's inherited land
but would continue to pursue his suit against the brothers until 1889. By then
feud hostilities—fueled in part by Perry Cline's dogged efforts—would have
forced Devil Anse to flee the Tug River Valley. 8
Presently King resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Jessica, and four
daughters. When not in their Richmond home, the family of six is usually
vacationing in Europe.
“Jessica
and I like to take our daughters on three-to-five-day inn-to-inn walks in
Europe. Jessica plans them out using maps to piece together trails through
beautiful countryside to small towns.”
He
is presently contributing editor and back-page columnist for Virginia
Living magazine, a TV producer, an inspirational speaker, an Advisory Board
Member for the James River Writers (http://www.jamesriverwriters.org), and a
founder and champion of the Virginia Literary Festival (http://www.literaryva.com);
and when, not writing, King gives speeches on his books.
“I really enjoy it. Some of the highlights have been: the National
Conference of State Supreme Court Chief Justices
last summer at the
Greenbrier, a TED talk at TEDxCharlottesville, which can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-29Tz1R3cY,
the US-China Peoples’ Friendship Association National Convention
, the eight-day
California Literary Society/Northern Trust Tour,
the Tennessee Williams
Literary Festival in New Orleans, the
Huntington Library in Pasadena, the
Mark Twain House in Hartford, the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach,
the Army Navy Club in Washington, DC, where I gave the Nelson Toast, the Burns
Society of Atlanta, and at the Richmond Jr. League Book & Author Dinner,
one of the oldest, biggest, and best book and author dinners in the United
States.”
In 1776, some Hatfields, along with the
Bromfield family, were living by the New River near Big Stony Creek. One night, unbeknownst to each other, a
Bromfield and a Hatfield both went to the same salt lick. One – though it is not known which – took
the other for a bear moving in the brush and shot him dead.
In the years to come, as neighbor turned
against neighbor, not every killing would be so accidental.
Of the four sons of Joseph Hatfield’s
son Eph (known as “Eph of All”), three – Joseph, George, and Jeremiah – lived
on the Kentucky side of the Tug, mostly in Pike County. Only one, Valentine, Devil Anse’s
grandfather, settled on the West Virginia side.
Eph of All’s four sons would sire more than fifty children, and
brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins would move across the Tug with
ease – on foot where it was shallow.
Likewise, the McCoys, who had reached
Kentucky by 1804, lived on both sides of the Tug and came and went as they
pleased. The families were on good terms
with each other and were intermarried on both sides of the river. In fact, Tug Valley dwellers in general were
so intertwined that in 1849, they petitioned to move the Virginia-Kentucky
state line so that the entire valley would lie within Virginia. “The present line,” they noted, “divides
neighborhoods, friends and relations.”
Among the signers were more than a dozen McCoys and Hatfields, families
linked together by business and politics, in addition to marriage.
This same year, Randall and Sarah McCoy,
fell in love and married. They were
first cousins descended from William McCoy, who in 1804, having been awarded
two hundred acres of land in Virginia (now part of Kentucky) for service in the
Revolutionary War, had settled in the Tug Valley. Four of his ten sons eventually continued
west, but the others and two daughters had planted the McCoy seed on both sides
of the river. Like John Knox, the
dogmatic founder of Scottish Presbyterianism, the Scots-Irish McCoys had strong
traits. They were austere, like their
forebears, who had lived in turf huts in the Scottish Lowlands, hardened to
discomfort, and adept at survival. While
they might accept a friendly hand from a neighbor they could repay, they turned
their backs on charity. They would
starve before they would beg.
One thing you did not do was cross a
McCoy. The family had a fierce streak beyond most. “The McCoys had a reputation for being
hospitable to strangers,” Jim McCoy, a nephew of Randall, the family patriarch
during the feud, would later say, “but a person better look out if he ever
stole anything from them.” As an
example, Jim cited his cousin Leland, who had a prized plum tree in his
backyard. “Once every day for a week, he
found plums missing from that tree,” Jim recounted. “Finally he decided he was gonna fix whoever
it was who was taking those plums. So, he put poison on the tree.” The fruit was never stolen again. The thief died.
By 1850, William’s son Sam had become
wealthy, owning 1,500 acres of prime land.
Living outside Stringtown, Kentucky, he and his wife, Elizabeth, reared
eighteen children, including Sarah, better known as Sally. Sam’s younger brother Dan was less
fortunate. Unsuccessful in business, he
was considered quarrelsome and shiftless by his neighbors. He and his wife, Peggy, moved their children
(there would be thirteen in all) including Randall, their fourth child, born in
1825, to Logan County, Virginia, when Randall was a boy. But Dan could not make a go of it there
either. To help pay for their farm,
Peggy raised and sold hogs; she also sold a snakebitten horse that she had
rescued. When Dan lost the farm in a
lawsuit after he had been timbering on their neighbor’s property she decided
that she would be better off without him and took the then-unusual step of
divorcing him.
Cousins Randall and Sally started out in
Logan County but after a while moved across the river to Pike County, where
they set out to build a life and a family on property given to them by her
father.
Despite the generations of harmony, the
warm feelings that united the two sides of the Tug evaporated in the spring of
1861 when Virginia seceded from the Union.
The Big Sandy River and the Tug Fork became part of the Confederacy’s
western border and a fault line in the division among the states. On one bank was Kentucky, which stayed
neutral but would go Union the next year.
On the other was a portion of Virginia that would become part of West
Virginia and a Union state in1863, although many of its people would remain
fiercely Confederate. Mixed sentiments
persisted on both sides of the river, but it was a decisive border, cutting
families like a saber. Almost all of the
Hatfields and McCoys on the Virginia side of the river stood with the
Confederacy, and almost all of the Hatfields and McCoys on the Kentucky side
went with the Union. Randall McCoy was
an exception. His Virginia ties ran
deep. He chose the Confederacy.
By the fall of 1861, when Union colonel
and future president James A Garfield maneuvered his Eighteenth Brigade into
the Kentucky side of the Tug Valley to secure strategic troves of salt, iron
ore, timber, and coal, the larger conflict had rent the social fabric of this
section of the Appalachians. Here, in
the nation’s oldest mountains, amid some of its most convoluted and confounding
terrain, the war was personal and ignited rampant raiding and feuding. The families on either side knew the enemy,
and more than any patriotic feeling, their own honor was at stake, because in
these parts a man simply did not allow another man to tell him what to do or
take anything from him. Here, where most
people lived hand to mouth, his family’s survival was at stake.
The men who lived in these mountains had
learned to fight from the Indians and had honed their craft of wilderness
warfare – defending, tracking, ambushing, killing – and used it against them,
until they had secured the place for themselves. They had a shoot-first, ask-questions-later
mentality. They wrestled and fought for
fun. Now they turned their sights on each other, and they exceled at the
bloodletting.
Shocked by the bitter, remorseless
killing, Garfield described his mission as rooting out the “infernal devil that
has made this valley a home of fiends and converted this war into a black hole
in which to murder any man that any soldier from envy, lust, or revenge
hated.” Yet not even the future
president, who earned a promotion to brigadier general for briefly securing the
region that winter, could gain a real grip on the place.
Serving under Garfield in the Big Sandy
Valley was a prophetic man who, seeing longtime neighbors stalking and killing
one another “among the interminable hills,” understood the place on a deep
level. “Long after the war is closed,
men will bear here the old grudge toward each other,” Ohio captain Charles
Henry observed; “the bitter gall of hatred will still course their veins, the
feudal flames will be yet unquenched.
“A simple declaration of peace,” he
declared, “will never do.”
As
Garfield occupied the rebellious valley, the men along Peter Creek in Pike
County, Kentucky, organized a Union home guard.
Among its members was Randall McCoy’s strapping six-foot-three brother
Asa Harmon McCoy, called Harmon, who was thirty-three years old when he signed
up in February 1862. Tight-lipped, with
curly dark brown hair and a broad handsome face, Harmon left two slaves behind
to take care of his farm and his family:
his wife, Martha, better known as Patty, and their four children. Patty was the daughter of a wealthy landowner
named Jacob Cline (whose father gave Peter Creek its name) and her brother,
also Peter, joined the same company as Harmon.
Peter Creek, emboldened by Garfield’s presence, was quickly becoming a
Union stronghold.
Just four days after enlisting, Harmon
found himself in a skirmish. He took a
bullet in the chest. Without much delay,
word went out that it was Devil Anse Hatfield, a crack shot, who had wounded
him.
Excerpt
from The
Feud The Hatfields & McCoys the True Story by Dean King
Pages
20 – 24
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Dean King at the Hatfield Cemetery in Sarah Ann,
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Title clip from The Hatfields & McCoys:
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Cartoon depicting The Hatfield & McCoy Feud.
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Mark Twain in 1895
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First
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William
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Duke of Chandos.
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The Quarrel Between
Capulets and Montagues
Drawing
depicted Act One Scene One from Romeo And Juliet
1873
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Devil
Anse (January 6, 1862 – April 19, 1922)
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Valentine
Wall Hatfield
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Johnse
Hatfield
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Nancy
McCoy
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Patriarchs
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Taizu,
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National Palace Museum in Taipei (inv. nr. zhonghua 000324). Original size is
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Clara
Barton (1821-1912), founder of the American Red Cross
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Ron
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Exxon
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Andy
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Jessica
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Oxford
Street entrance to Bond Street tub station and west one shopping center
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Green
upland pastures separated by dry-stone walls and grazed by sheep and cattle.
A
karstic landscape in North Yorkshire, UK
The
underlying rock is principally limestone.
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Wide
12 segment panoramic view of Derwent Water as viewed from the northern shore of
Keswick.
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to David Iliff
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32
John
A. Williams
July
3, 1962
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Gloria
Naylor in August of 2007
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to David Shankbone
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E.L.
Doctorow
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18, 2008
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Ben
Miller and Dean King
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Matthew
Gurewitsch web photo
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William
Faulkner
1954
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Cormac
McCarthy
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Breece
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Daniel
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Tim
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Tolkien
was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers in July
1915. He trained with the 13th (Reserve) Battalion on Cannock Chase,
Staffordshire, for eleven months. He was transferred to the 11th (Service)
Battalion with the British Expeditionary Force, arriving in France on 4 June
1916.
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Patrick
O’Brian
June
13, 2011
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Hillary
Mantel
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George
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Jacket
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cover of A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and
Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales
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48
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cover of Paper Clips to Printers: The
Cost-Cutting Sourcebook for Your Home Office
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cover of Every Man Will Do His Duty: An
Anthology of Firsthand Account From the Age of Nelson
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cover of Cancer Combat: Survivors Share
Their Guerrilla Tactics to Help You Win the Fight of Your Life
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cover of Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed
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cover of Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas
and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick
O’Brian.
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cover of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True
Story of Survival
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Jacket
cover of Unbound: a True
Story of War, Love, and Survival
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Another
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Love, and Survival
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Morgan
Entrekin
May
2012
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57
John
F. Kennedy Jr. greets invited guests at the HBO and Imagine Entertainment
premiere held at Kennedy. (Photo credit NASA/KSC)
1998
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The
first issue of George Magazine
October/November
1995
On
the cover – Model Cindy Crawford depicted as President George Washington.
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Dean
King holding the Hatfield Guns.
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Dean
King, far left, clearing a Hatfield trail while ATVing in West Virginia.
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Map
of events and places of The Hatfield-McCoy Feud along the Tug Valley
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Randall
McCoy
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The
photograph shows the following members of the Hatfield-Clan:
Top
row, from left to right:
Rosa
Lee Hatfield (daughter of Anderson), Detroit 'Troy' Hatfield (son of
Anderson), Betty Hatfield (Caldwell) (daughter of Anderson), Elias
Hatfield (son of Anderson), Tom Chafin (nephew of William Anderson),
Joe D. Hatfield (son of William Anderson), Ock Damron, Shephard Hatfield
(son of Cap), Levicy Emma Hatfield (daughter of Cap), and Bill
Border (store clerk).
Second
row, from left to right:
Mrs.
Mary Hensley-Simpkins-Howes (daughter of Anderson) with daughter Vici
Simpkins, William Anderson 'Devil Anse' Hatfield, Levicy Chafin Hatfield (wife
of Anderson), Nancy Elizabeth Hatfield (wife of Cap) with son Robert
Elliott Hatfield, Louise Hatfield (daughter of Cap), Cap Hatfield, and
Coleman Hatfield (son of Cap)
Front
row, from left to right:
Tennyson
'Tennis' Hatfield (son of Anderson), Levicy Hatfield (daughter of
Johnse), Willis Hatfield (son of Anderson), and 'Watch' or 'Yellow
Watch' ('Devil Anse's' coon and bear dog)
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picture was taken in 1897
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Marker
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Double
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Dean
King doing research for The Feud at the Pike County Court House P.Engelhorn
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A
section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield–McCoy feud.
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
March
10, 1999
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Image
of the Hatfield & McCoy Peace Treaty signed in 2003
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Dean
King’s clip on the History Channel’s documentary of the Feud.
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Perry
Cline
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Randall
McCoy
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Bill
Paxton speaking at the 2014 WonderCon, for "Edge of Tomorrow", at the
Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Photo by Gage Skidmore, taken
on April 19, 2014
Gage
Skidmore.
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DVD
cover of the History Channel mini-series Hatfields & McCoys
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Kevin
Costner
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Toronto
International Film Festival 2014
September
8, 2014
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Devil
Anse Hatfield
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Photo
clip from the History Chanel mini-series Hatfields & McCoys depicting
actor Robert Vibert as Perry Cline
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Jacket
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Hatfields & McCoys
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Dean
King Family photo
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Dean
King giving a lecture at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg
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