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The Frontier's Most Dangerous Woman: The Story of Nancy Hart
In 1779, on the Georgia frontier, a group of armed Loyalist soldiers forced their way into Nancy Hart's cabin, demanding a hot meal from a helpless w…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Taylor-Mullins Feud: The Road to the Killing Rock
The infamous Killing Rock massacre ended with the deaths of a moonshiner and his wife and several of their friends on a mountain along the Virginia-K…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Franklin's Last Battle: Sevier's Attack at Flint Creek
In the winter of 1789, Cherokee war leader John Watts made a daring decision. Instead of returning to the Chickamauga towns as he usually did for the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
47 Years a Hermit: The Strange Afterlife of William Hewitt
In the late 1780s a man from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, William Hewitt, crossed the Ohio River seeking to find solitude in the Appalachian wildern…
3 months ago
The Untamable Monster Well of 1894: Big Moses
In September 1894, a routine drilling operation on a Tyler County, West Virginia, farm broke into a massive natural gas pocket, unleashing one of the…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Devil in the Mountains- The Story of Vincent "Clawhammer" Witcher
Vincent “Clawhammer” Witcher became one of the most feared Confederate guerrilla leaders along the Virginia/Kentucky border in the Civil War. As the…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
A Witness to History: The Frontier Life of Captain William Asher
The early settlements along the Watauga and Holston Rivers in what’s now Tennessee were the very beginning of "The Wild West." While names like Danie…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Appalachia's Forgotten Uprising: Claypool's Rebellion
In 1781, as the American Revolution raged, Appalachian settlers in what’s now West Virginia rose in armed rebellion against the Virginia government. …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Night Hell Came to Asheville: The Outlaw Will Harris
In 1906, escaped convict Will Harris arrived in Asheville, North Carolina, and unleashed one of the most violent crime sprees in the city’s history. …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
A State of Natural Liberty: The Incredible Life of Quill Rose
Quill Rose was a Confederate veteran, bear hunter, blacksmith, storyteller, and moonshiner who lived deep in the Smoky Mountains along Eagle Creek. I…
4 months ago