In this episode from our YouTube channel, Steve and Rod tell the story of Clifton Branham, an outlaw who lived along the border between Virginia and Kentucky around the turn
On February 28, 1890, an argument that had been brewing for years turned deadly on the eastern marble stairs of the U.S. Capitol. William Preston Taulbee, a former Kentucky congressman
By request of one of our listeners, this week we tell the story of Bad Tom Smith, a notorious figure at the very heart of the French-Eversole feud in Kentucky.
Nestled in Mingo Hollow, six miles west of Middlesboro, Kentucky, the Quarter House was no ordinary saloon. Its unique position on the Tennessee state line allowed patrons to evade the
Join us as we tell the tragic and lesser-known story of Willis Hatfield, the youngest son of Devil Anse Hatfield. While the Hatfield-McCoy feud had cooled down by the time
Join us as we dig into what some say is the beginning of the legendary feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families, sparked by a stolen hog in 1878 Appalachia.
In December, 1887 William P. Taulbee, son of a Kentucky state senator, ordained Methodist minister and a U. S. Congressman, dubbed the “Mountain Orator” for his ability to sway public
In the 1880s and 1890s a bloody feud was happening across two Appalachian counties, with conflicts over hogs, shootings, ambushes, cabins set on fire and the threat of the governor
At the turn of the 20th century a wealthy and politically connected man from Grainger County, Tennessee, lost a lawsuit filed by a widow and was ordered to pay her