{"id":3641,"date":"2025-09-05T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:10:45","slug":"bad-talt-hall-appalachian-outlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Bad Talt Hall: Appalachian Outlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MuU0V270874?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over a hundred years ago, Talton Hall\u2014known as \u201cBad Talt Hall,\u201d outlaw, lawman, and reputed killer\u2014was captured, tried, and hanged in Wise County, Virginia. His violent life, from the Civil War to blood feuds in Kentucky and Tennessee, left a trail of bodies and legends. This week we tell his story, from deputy sheriff to notorious fugitive, outlaw and rumored killer of a hundred men, to his final showdown with Norton Police Chief Enos Hylton, and his execution in Wise in 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Today on our YouTube channel, we tell Hall&#8217;s story, another one of the Stories of Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this week\u2019s story, be sure to give us a thumbs up, leave a comment and subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a hundred years ago, Talton Hall\u2014known as \u201cBad Talt Hall,\u201d outlaw, lawman, and reputed killer\u2014was captured, tried, and hanged in Wise County, Virginia. His violent life, from the Civil War to blood feuds in Kentucky and Tennessee, left a trail of bodies and legends. This week we tell his story, from deputy sheriff to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[104,1276,1281,1280,1279,1278,1282,1068,1277,1283,970],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-outlaws","tag-appalachian-history","tag-bad-talt-hall","tag-benton-taylor","tag-big-stone-gap-police-guard","tag-blood-feuds-kentucky","tag-civil-war-appalachia","tag-john-wright-devil-john","tag-outlaw-stories","tag-talton-hall","tag-wise-county-courthouse-hanging","tag-wise-county-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-WJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}