Table of Contents
Introduction
Violence, Statecraft, and Statehood in the Early Republic: The State of Franklin
Devoted to Hardships, Danger, and Devastation: The Landscape of Indian and White Violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, from 1753 to 1800
Our Mad Young Men: Authority and Violence in Cherokee Country
The Ferocious Character of Antebellum Georgia's Gold Country: Frontier Lawlessness and Violence in Fact and Fiction
A Possession, or an Absence of Ears: The Shape of Violence in Travel Narratives about the Mountain South, 1779-1835
Violence Against Slaces as a Catalyst in Changing Attitudes Toward Slavery: an 1857 Case Study in East Tennessee
These Big-Boned, Semi-Barbarian People: Moonshining and the Myth of Violent Appalachia, 1870-1900
Deep in the Shades of Ill-Starred Georgia's Wood: The Murder of Elder Joseph Standing in Late-Nineteenth Century Appalachian Georgia
Race and Violence in Urbanizing Appalachia: The Roanoke Riot of 1893
Assassins and Feudists: Politics and Death in the Bluegrass and the Mountains of Kentucky
A Hard-Bitten Lot: Non-Strike Violence in the Early Southern West Virginia Smokeless Coalfields, 1880-1910
The Largest Manhunt in Western North Carolina's History: The Story of Broadus Miller
The Murder of Thomas Price: Image, Identity, and Violence in Western North Carolina