Who shot the mayor of Bluefield, West Virginia, back in 1917?
Today we tell the story of that little bit of Appalachian history.
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Spread the loveDuring the post-Civil War coal boom in West Virginia, many new towns were founded to serve the coal industry and the railroads that hauled that coal to market.
Spread the loveTalt Hall had a very interesting life. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, he had been a Confederate soldier, a deputy sheriff, a U. S. Marshal, a feudist,
Spread the loveIn 1923 two moonshiners killed a man in Dickenson County, Virginia, over a bad run of moonshine. The two were tried and sentenced in Clintwood, then sent to