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Frontier Justice: Russell Bean and Andrew Jackson
Russell Bean was the son of William Bean and his wife, Lydia, the first people to settle in what's now Tennessee and for whom Bean Station is named. …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Greene-Jones War
In the 1880s and 1890s a bloody feud was happening across two Appalachian counties, with conflicts over hogs, shootings, ambushes, cabins set on fire…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Kingdom of the Happy Land
After the Civil War, as the South lay in ruins, a group of freedmen decided to depart the Mississippi plantation on which they had been held as slave…
2 years, 8 months ago
Billy Dean Anderson: Appalachia's Most Wanted Outlaw
Billy Dean Anderson was born in Fentress County, Tennessee, and, by all accounts, lived a normal law-abiding life as he grew up, even becoming a volu…
2 years, 8 months ago
Amos Owens: The Cherry Mountain Moonshiner
After the Civil War a young man bought Cherry Mountain in Rutherford County, North Carolina and used the wild cherries found there to add flavor to h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Dr. John R. Brinkley: The Goat Gland Doctor from Appalachia
John Romulus Brinkley was born in Burnsville, North Carolina, to a former Confederate medic and his housekeeper. From those humble beginnings young …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Tragic End of Outlaw Joe Brown
Joe Brown was a hell-raiser, thug and violent alcoholic who terrorized the town of Whitmer, West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century.
He did, th…
2 years, 8 months ago
The 1921 West Virginia Capitol Fire
On January 3, 1921, a massive fire broke out at the West Virginia state capitol in Charleston. Not a big deal, you might be thinking, fires happen al…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Tragedy at the Cowee Tunnel
On December 30, 1881, 30 convicts, along with their guards, were shackled and deposited on the banks of the Tuckaseegee River near Dillboro, North Ca…
2 years, 9 months ago
Bettie Simms, The Queen of the Moonshiners
In the early 1900's a young mother in Polk County, North Carolina, had a decision to make. She had separated from her abusive husband and had severa…
2 years, 9 months ago