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Circuit Court Records, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Library, Lexington.
    6. Basil Hatfield v. Anderson Runyon, et ah, File #2049, ibid.
    7. Thomas Hatfield v. Joseph Smith, et al., File #2038, ibid.
    8. James Lesley v. Pleasant McCoy, File #2606, ibid. See also Fleming Stafford v. James Vance, et al, File #2907, ibid.; Pleasant McCoy v. Randolph and Sarah McCoy, File #1945, ibid., which charges Randolph and Sarah with malicious gossip.
    9. Harmon McCoy’s military record is noted in Kentucky, Report of the Adjutant General …, vol. 2, 1861–1866 (Frankfort, 1867), p. 450. For details of Harmon’s death, I have generally relied on McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 4–11, 221–22. A variant version is Hatfield, “The Feuding Hatfields,” pp. 9–14.
    10. Versions of the conflict regarding the hog may be found in McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 13–19; Hatfield, The Hatfields, pp. 24–27; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 17–24. Contrary to an assertion by Jones, Randolph McCoy and Floyd Hatfield were not brothers-in-law. See McCoy, The McCoys, p. 222.
    11. Accounts of the trouble between the McCoys and Bill Staton, with the usual variations, are contained in Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 21–23; McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 20–24; Hatfield, The Hatfields, pp. 28–32. See also Crawford, An American Vendetta, pp. 13–14.
    Chapter 3
    1. Typical of the indictments against the Hatfields are those in Pike County Order Books L, pp. 204, 397, and N, p. 528, Pike County Courthouse. For the armed bands, see Simon B. Buckner to E. Willis Wilson, January 30, 1888, in Correspondence between the Governors of Kentucky and West Virginia, Kentucky, Legislative Document No. 2 (Frankfort, 1888), pp. 2, 11; hereinafter cited as Kentucky Legislative Document No. 2; Louisville Courier-Journal, February 11, 1888.
    2. Diverse accounts of events at the election are in Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 34–36; McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 25–34; Hatfield, The Hatfields, pp. 33–41.
    3. Hatfield, The Hatfields, p. 34.
    4. McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 35–36, states that John Hatfield served as Randolph’s emissary to Rose Anna. Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 37, errs in referring to Josephine as a younger sister of Rose Anna. Actually, she was nine years older and probably married at the time that Rose Anna was with the Hatfields. McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 308–11.
    5. Louisville Courier-Journal, February 17, 1888; Wheeling Intelligencer, February 18, 1888; Interviews with Cap Hatfield, November 11, 1929, and Dr. Elliott R. Hatfield, November 13, 1929, John L. Spivak Papers, West Virginia Collection, West Virginia University Library.
    6. McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 52, 224; Interview with Cap Hatfield, November 11, 1929, Spivak Papers; Hatfield, The Hatfields, p. 68; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 38, 274.
    7. Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Anderson Hatfield, et al., Case #19601, Kentucky Court of Appeals, particularly testimony of the Reverend Anderson Hatfield.
    8. Ibid., particularly testimony of Randolph McCoy, Sarah McCoy, James McCoy, Joe Davis, Dan Whitt, Jeff Whitt, Plyant Mahon, Dock Mahon, and Ellison Mounts.
    9. Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 56.
    10. Ibid., p. 57.
    11. Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Anderson Hatfield, et al., File #19601, Kentucky Court of Appeals.
    12. Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 59.
    Chapter 4
    1. The description of Cline is in Louisville Courier-Journal, March 17, 1888.
    2. Ibid., February 18, 1890; Pittsburgh Times, February 1, 1888.
    3. Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 70–72.
    4. Ibid., pp. 73–76. For variant accounts, which name Nancy Daniels’s mother as the second victim of the whipping, see McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 114–15; Hatfield, The Hatfields, p. 74.
    5. Pittsburgh Times, February 1, 1888; Louisville Courier-Journal, February 17, 1888; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 76–78.
    6. Anderson Hatfield to P[erry] A. Cline, December 26,