Word: hargises
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...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 officer and a local police chief...
* Later Beech Hargis shot & killed his father, James Hargis, was imprisoned, paroled. He broke parole, escaped the officers escorting him back to the penitentiary, has never since been heard of.