Word: feudist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college...