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...Bloody Breathitt...
Four hours ago I stood waiting for a train at Jackson, in Breathitt County. I had just read TIME'S generous words for my first novel, River of Earth...
...Because of its many feuds, Breathitt County, Ky. long ago became known as "bloody Breathitt." One day last fortnight Frank Howard and his sons, Tom and Brown, walked into the Federal Surplus Commodities office at Jackson, demanded their quotas of apples, oranges, grits. E. J. Dawkins of the office staff told them to come back the next...
...Breathitt County, Ky., triplets were born to Mr. & Mrs. Levi D. Eaton. Names: Amos, Andy, Mme Queen...
...called the region the "Dark and Bloody Ground" because the Cherokees and Iroquois almost wiped each other out fighting for its possession. Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal...