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1886. Copy in Special Collections, University of Kentucky Library.
    Chapter 5
    1. Hambleton Tapp and James C. Klotter, Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865–1900 (Frankfort, 1977), pp. 386–87.
    2. New York Times, January 26, 1888; Wheeling Register, March 25, 1888.
    3. Charles G. Mutzenberg, Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies (New York, 1917), pp. 254–324; Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky: Land of Contrast (New York, 1968), pp. 207–33.
    4. Mutzenberg, Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies, pp. 187–253.
    5. Ibid., pp. 111–86; Louisville Courier-Journal, February 17, 1888. For an official and somewhat analytical account of the troubles in Rowan County, see Special Reports on Rowan County Affairs, by Sam E. Hill, Adjutant General, and Captain Ernest MacPherson, to the Governor of Kentucky, Legislative Document No. 23 (Frankfort, 1887), pp. 1–23; Majority and Minority Reports and Testimony Taken by the Rowan County Investigating Committee, Made to the General Assembly of Kentucky, March 16th, 1888, Kentucky, Legislative Document No. 3 (Frankfort, 1888), pp. 1–551.
    6. Louisville Courier-Journal, February 9, 10, 17, 1888.
    7. Ibid., February 14, 15, 16, 1888.
    8. Kentucky, Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky … [1887–1888], (Frankfort, 1888), pp. 908–14.
    9. Louisville Courier-Journal, August 7, 1885.
    10. Ibid., November 30, 1885.
    Chapter 6
    1. Wheeling Intelligencer, February 2, 1888.
    2. For differing accounts of the capture of Wallace and the death of Jeff McCoy, see Mutzenberg, Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies, pp. 52–56; Hatfield, The Hatfields, pp. 74–77; McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 119–27; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 76–78.
    3. Wheeling Register, April 22, 1888.
    4. Buckner to Wilson, January 30, 1888, Kentucky Legislative Document No. 2, pp. 2, 11. See also Louisville Courier-Journal, February 11, 1888.
    5. Louisville Courier-Journal, February 7, 1888; McCoy, The McCoys, pp. 213–14, 227.
    6. Wilson to Buckner, September 30, 1887, Kentucky Legislative Document No. 2, pp. 1–2; Buckner to Wilson, January 9, 1888, ibid., pp. 2–3; Buckner to Wilson, January 30, 1888, ibid., pp. 11–12; Louisville Courier-Journal, February 11, 1888.
    7. New York Times, January 29, 1888; Wheeling Register, April 22, 1888; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 87–88.
    8. Cline’s letter is printed in Wheeling Intelligencer, April 24, 1888.
    9. Walker to Cline, November 21, 1887, Kentucky Legislative Document No. 2, p. 21.
    10. Buckner to Wilson, January 30, 1888, ibid., p. 15; Louisville Courier-Journal, February 18, 1890.
    11. Phillips to Wilson, December 13, 1887, KenUcky Legislative Document No. 2, p. 8; Wilson to Buckner, January 21, 1888, with affidavits of G. W. Pinson, Johnse Hatfield, and A. J. Auxier, ibid., pp. 3–6; Wheeling Register, April 22, 1888; Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 89.
    12. Wheeling Intelligencer, January 27, April 24, 1888; Louisville Courier-Journal, March 6, 1888.
    13. Quoted in Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 92.
    Chapter 7
    1. Louisville Courier-Journal, February 18, 1890; Testimony of Ellison Mounts, Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Ply ant Mayhorn [Mahon], Case #19601, Kentucky Court of Appeals.
    2. For the members of the Hatfield party, see statements of Charles Gillespie, Cincinnati Enquirer, October 14, 1888, and Wheeling Intelligencer, October 17, 1888, and of Ellison Mounts, Louisville Courier-Journal, February 18, 1890. Vance’s words are noted in Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, p. 95.
    3. Jones, Hatfields and McCoys, pp. 95–96.
    4. For details of the attack upon the McCoy home, I have drawn primarily from the confession of Charles Gillespie, Cincinnati Enquirer, October 14, 1888, and Wheeling Intelligencer, October 17, 1888; the testimony of Sarah McCoy in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Ellison Mounts, Case #19602, Kentucky Court of Appeals; the