Rowan County, in eastern Kentucky, was the home of the Rowan County War, the most spectacular of 19th century family fueds--a bloody and brutal effort by two clans to decimate each other. McConkey unearths the story of the fued, a story the local newspaper wouldn't recount for 75 years.
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Rowan County, in eastern Kentucky, was the home of the Rowan County War, the most spectacular of 19th century family fueds--a bloody and brutal effort by two clans to decimate each other. McConkey unearths the story of the fued, a story the local newspaper wouldn't recount for 75 years.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Clean first edition, SIGNED by author, in unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Blue paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine, copper metallic lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, soiling or fading-tiny nibble to top rear corner point (smaller than a grain of rice). Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean. Signed "James McConkey" under name on title page; inscribed on half-title page as follows: "For Mike, An illustration of what a good person can accomplish-Jim-Jan '06." 243 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, tiny scratch to rear panel.
Jim McConkey taught my creative writing classes, and his lovely wife Gladys taught my journalism class, at Morehead State College (now University) in the 1950s. I came to know the McConkeys well, and was at times a guest in their home.. Having been born and raised in the hills of Appalachian Kentucky, I find Jim's reflections on the Rowan County feud, as well as the attitudes of the local people about that part of their history, to be most interesting. Jim wrote and disseminated to his students a monograph ,simply entitled "Why Write?", that effectively addressed that issue for aspiring writers, and that paper should be a part of every college course in creative writing.