Appalachias Deadliest Feud

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
    @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +15

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  • @dlkline27
    @dlkline27 Год назад +52

    I've heard about the Hatfields and McCoys most of my life but this is the first I've heard of the Holbrooks and Underwoods in my 84+ years. Thanks for another great story.

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 Год назад +83

    I own 60 acres on the Blue Ridge eastern slope in Rappahannock County, Va. I inherited it from my mother, who had inherited it from her father. Her father was an O'Daugherty born in County Cork, who homesteaded and eventually had 45 dairy cows and a thriving farm in the bottom 20. Tough as old shoe leather and the most honest and principled man I ever knew, next to my father..

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +6

      Strong 💪 bloodlines

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 Год назад +7

      He was a Corkman, Cork is referred to as “the rebel county”. I have family in County Kilkenny who are also dairy farmers.

    • @jeanettecoleman-mz7ie
      @jeanettecoleman-mz7ie Год назад +3

      Great Heritage 👊

    • @Rob-gy1dd
      @Rob-gy1dd 6 месяцев назад +5

      Be proud of the strength walking around with you.

    • @MrJRW1
      @MrJRW1 6 месяцев назад +3

      You are so lucky that you inherited 60 acres! It's something that many people dream about, but most will never see their dreams come true.

  • @claudiaharris2873
    @claudiaharris2873 3 месяца назад +14

    I was a little girl in the blue ridge mountains. 60 years ago. I remember going home for supper with a friend. Her grandfather picked us up from school in an old old pickup. We drove and drove and drove up into the mountains. Into another world and life time. I’m still fascinated with the stories as I can picture the scenery.

  • @leonceboudreauxwolf
    @leonceboudreauxwolf Год назад +11

    Wow ! Some serious stuff. Thank you for sharing this. Good or bad, men were men in those days and took action. What a difference today.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      Exactly, that’s the one thing I drive to show people, that folks back than we’re a completely different breed, and would fight to survive

  • @williamsullivan3702
    @williamsullivan3702 Год назад +15

    Great historical non fiction, this was well made. Great content

  • @CHCLA6779
    @CHCLA6779 Год назад +44

    I found this channel by accident - and I am so glad I did! Thank you a million times. Truly enjoying discovering this history.

  • @ImperatorRomulus
    @ImperatorRomulus 4 месяца назад +7

    Glad I bumbled upon this channel. Great stories. Thanks.

  • @KoolT
    @KoolT Год назад +12

    You can fall asleep listening to these BC of the calm voice ❤

  • @HonkyTonkSinger
    @HonkyTonkSinger Год назад +60

    My great grandfather was an Underwood who married a Holbrook. And yes, the Kentucky/Virginia clans. I’ve never known many Holbrooks, but can verify first hand, and from being one, the Underwoods are a very interesting bunch of characters. Wait ‘til you hear the moonshine stories…

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      how bout that! Thanks for sharing James

    • @peterhoulihan9766
      @peterhoulihan9766 Год назад +14

      "Wait ‘til you hear the moonshine stories…"
      Well don't stop there.

    • @BoomerElite4u
      @BoomerElite4u Год назад +4

      Dude this is funny too because every Underwood I've met had been completely wild (I'm from the same area). I remember partying with a dude who had that last name and thinking he was peculiar, but otherwise charming and fun to be around. About a week later I saw his face on the cover of the local Busted paper.

    • @SCouch-cw6je
      @SCouch-cw6je Год назад +2

      French/Eversole feud in Perry County. The old home is still standing in the river. You can find bullets and even arrowheads littering the surface

    • @AwakenedBeing24
      @AwakenedBeing24 Год назад

      That must be why my great great great grandpa Hiram Underwood went with his family from Virginia to Kentucky. My great grandma who was his granddaughter, Grace Ann decided to leave Kentucky and never look back. 😜

  • @niteshades_promise
    @niteshades_promise Год назад +14

    you have the perfect voice for tales like this.🍻

  • @jamesholbrook7785
    @jamesholbrook7785 Год назад +62

    I’ve heard this story many times since my ggggrandfather was a brother to Squire Holbrook.
    You know more about it than I do. Excellent research JD. You tell a story better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +7

      Thanks for send me all sorts of information on this story, I learned a lot researching it, hope everyone enjoys it!

    • @shantelllawlor2496
      @shantelllawlor2496 Год назад +7

      and mine is Underwood. Our clan remains close to our kin.

    • @desertodavid
      @desertodavid Год назад

      Yeah it's a story alright keeping the divisiveness going into the 21st century in order to take this country down.

    • @ArchFundy
      @ArchFundy Год назад +4

      I've never seen anyone indicate generations with ggg... before. Great idea. This is the way it should always be done.

    • @jamesholbrook7785
      @jamesholbrook7785 Год назад +2

      @@ArchFundy agreed

  • @jasonhare8540
    @jasonhare8540 Год назад +12

    When someone from Appalachia tells you they're going to get that SOB they mean it. We do tend to bear a grudge 🤣

  • @alang.carter245
    @alang.carter245 7 месяцев назад +3

    Closed my eyes and listened to your story J.D. ,your truly a story teller

  • @LeveretteJamesClifford1955
    @LeveretteJamesClifford1955 Год назад +27

    Much feuding grew out of Bushwhacking during the Civil War and it wasn't just up in the Appalacians, it was all over the South East. It did not die out until the 1920s.

  • @JustMe-mh2pn
    @JustMe-mh2pn Год назад +14

    and I little twit thought Hatfields & McCoys, it couldn't get any worse. Goodness gracious what's going on in that corner of the US. Great storytelling, as always. Thank you for your stories. always great 😘

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +4

      the Hatfields and McCoy's had nothing on these old boys

    • @JustMe-mh2pn
      @JustMe-mh2pn Год назад +2

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller JD thank you for being simply fabulous

  • @justinlaw9336
    @justinlaw9336 Год назад +8

    Me and my family are from Carter County. It's where I still live today.
    Heard about this ol' family feud growing up. Good job! Ur one helluva storyteller!

  • @rickoshae1687
    @rickoshae1687 Год назад +16

    My father was born in kentucky 1948, i was born in Australia. Only ever visited my fathers family once, so i love to hear these stories.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад

      We are glad to have you here my friend. Incidentally, my sister in law lives in Adelaide

    • @brianplumlee6238
      @brianplumlee6238 Год назад

      As a Kentucky native, we have a lot of these kind of stories.

    • @tomchaperon1081
      @tomchaperon1081 Месяц назад

      Your father must of been pretty old when you were born😀

    • @tomchaperon1081
      @tomchaperon1081 Месяц назад

      Sorry I thought it said 1848😅

  • @scottblack3381
    @scottblack3381 Год назад +41

    You got another winner with this one, JD, and I enjoyed every minute of it! Take care and enjoy your weekend. I'll see ya on the next one!

  • @burkey548
    @burkey548 11 месяцев назад +4

    JD THIS IS THE BEST STORY EVER MY GOD MY MAN YOU SHOULD TALK TO KEVIN COSTNER AND ASK HIM TO DO A FILM ON THESE TWO FAMILIES AMAZING STORY LOVE YA JD

  • @tom4331
    @tom4331 Год назад +9

    Wow I was looking for new fued stories and you delivered great story

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 Год назад +10

    The pic used at 8.21 is the famous post-battle photo of a recuperating John Burns, the old civilian who fought against the Confederates at Gettysburg in 1863,

  • @mariehillard1742
    @mariehillard1742 Год назад +14

    I just love these stories that you tell so beautifully. All the best from the land down under.

  • @barbstivers8362
    @barbstivers8362 4 месяца назад +2

    Never heard about this. Heard stories of Bloody Breathitt in Ky growing up. You got any stories on that. I love listening to you. You have a great voice. I can not stop listening. Thank you. from the bottom of my heart.

  • @geraldinepetress3766
    @geraldinepetress3766 Год назад +9

    Mr. JD my grandparents on my mom's side was from Kentucky, they were married in a cornfield grandma was 16 grandpa was 18. Anyway it was told to me I'm related to the McCoy's.

  • @catherine59226
    @catherine59226 Год назад +23

    I can’t get enough of your excellent channel! Looking forward to your next history lesson. ❤️👍🏻

  • @bradlane3662
    @bradlane3662 Год назад +56

    Excellent production! I live in southern WV where I was born almost 65 years ago. And I knew nothing of this feud! I love my family but I've never been that " blood is thicker than water" kind of person. Because I've seen my relatives be in the wrong. I know things were different back then but I still know families with that clannish attitude. They usually can't get along with each other but if a outsider crosses them it's hell to pay! Thanks JD.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +12

      Thanks Brad- back then- like your kin or not- you needed them to survive, just like Elwin in this story- he stayed out of the feud completely and still got killed

    • @frostyfrances4700
      @frostyfrances4700 Год назад +5

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller - The innocent are swept up with the guilty in civil conflict however localized or spread. That war obviously grew out of the previous one. RIP, Elwin.

    • @c.b.-11
      @c.b.-11 Год назад +1

      ​​​@@TheAppalachianStorytellerst out of curiosity and maybe I missed it but were both families on the same side in the Civil War or who was who in that War? I heard the Jefferson Davis comment, last words that man spoke, but I couldn't tell which family is on what side. I saw this coming from the start of the video but never heard it before.😂

    • @vakkerdame8557
      @vakkerdame8557 Год назад +3

      Ain’t that the truth. They don’t like each other and don’t like outsiders either. I know a family like this and I’m in Florida. Never met a more two faced scheming bunch in my life. 😂

    • @bradlane3662
      @bradlane3662 Год назад +2

      @@vakkerdame8557 Yep!

  • @KeepingAppalachia
    @KeepingAppalachia Год назад +14

    Awfully good enjoyed it on the ride from work

  • @jamesdeen3011
    @jamesdeen3011 Год назад +10

    Oh....I forgot to say thanks JD for another great story. You were right, it did knock my socks off. Enjoyed.

  • @bigiron8831
    @bigiron8831 Год назад +7

    Good morning my friends, great story to start off a great Saturday. Thank you J.D. Y'all stay safe out there 🙏

  • @righton6442
    @righton6442 Год назад +12

    I've been watching all of you Appalachian stories, and really enjoying them. These stories would make a great series. I hope someone picks up on that one day. You also have a great voice! I realized that I wasn't following you, and now I am!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      That would be awesome if they did, I have so many more stores I want to tell

    • @sevenspecie592
      @sevenspecie592 Год назад +3

      I have to agree with you!! It would make. A Wonderful series! That would make to much sense too busy making garbage these days!!🤣

  • @ElizabethBarringer-ej7nf
    @ElizabethBarringer-ej7nf Год назад +2

    Excellent episode sadly I did not learn of Sergeant York in school but from watching television Saturday afternoon when I was a kid. Even then I wondered why I had never heard. Thanks for sharing good teacher j.d

  • @martymcpeak4748
    @martymcpeak4748 Год назад +8

    great piece of history you broght us. i don't know how i never got the notification it came out. i hope i have remedied that by going back and selecting all notifications. you Sir are the best storyteller i have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Storytelling is a dying art but people like you are its very lifes blood. Thank You for everything you do. Peace and Love

  • @JaredKingTV
    @JaredKingTV Год назад +3

    Loooord what another EXTRY GOOD'N brother!!! Can't wait to see more. God bless and have a good'n JD!

  • @bobkarigan4512
    @bobkarigan4512 6 месяцев назад +2

    JD I binge listen to your stories, Love Each One!

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 Год назад +10

    I like stories like this keep’em comin Storyteller if possible. Ones like this one and you telling it like you do seems like I’m there. Be safe brother and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏

  • @brandonsexton9017
    @brandonsexton9017 Год назад +7

    This is the first story I have heard from you. I really enjoyed hearing you tell it and you have a new subscriber. I live in East Tennessee just below the KY state line and I've never heard of this feud. Thanks so much for the content and I look forward to watching your other vids.

  • @gailjenkins9197
    @gailjenkins9197 Год назад +16

    Wow! I could have actually seen that happening. Mountain folk, look at it like, blood is thicker than water. Mess with one of us, you got us all.

  • @sevenspecie592
    @sevenspecie592 Год назад +5

    I always appreciate the scenery in your videos! I know that's your personal work. Always beautiful❤

  • @49er61
    @49er61 Год назад +2

    Another wonderful Appalachian story from the past. Your narrations and your voice make this channel very interesting. Thank you for sharing a great story

  • @arvettadelashmit9337
    @arvettadelashmit9337 Год назад +18

    I was born in Rowan County, Kentucky. I live in Rowan County now. However, I have never heard this story before. Carter County is next to Rowan County. This does sound much worse than the Feud that took place in Rowan County. Thank you for this video.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +5

      This feud took place before the Rowan County feud with also included the Underwood Family

    • @GhostRider-sc9vu
      @GhostRider-sc9vu Год назад +2

      Thats because the Yankee Press did not cover it, just like this feud the Black Patch War in west Ky made that Hatfield McCoy fued look like a barroom tussle

    • @luciparadise6781
      @luciparadise6781 Год назад

      @@GhostRider-sc9vu😮😬

  • @nightrider7297
    @nightrider7297 Год назад +4

    This is the best channel RUclips. Thanks for the hard work and excellent entertainment.

  • @mistyjames810
    @mistyjames810 Год назад +4

    Just found your channel, that was gripping I really enjoyed it! Thanks 👍 🤠

  • @michaelharvey5138
    @michaelharvey5138 Год назад +2

    Thanks for this interesting and bloody tale….

  • @stonereaper1157
    @stonereaper1157 Год назад +6

    Excellent history Thank you for all your hard work
    It's much appreciated

  • @KathysTube
    @KathysTube Год назад +16

    Seems there are always people who are always ready and willing to fight, and they don't seem to need a good reason... things haven't changed all that much... now it's mostly "civilized" feuding, but can be just as deadly in one way or another.
    Thanks JD for sharing another fascinating story from our history 😎👍

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      Well said Kathy! Have a good en

    • @KathysTube
      @KathysTube Год назад +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thanks... you too 👍

    • @BoomerElite4u
      @BoomerElite4u Год назад +2

      People in Appalachia are still really territorial when you're in the back woods.

    • @KathysTube
      @KathysTube Год назад +1

      @@BoomerElite4u Maybe it's in their genes 😁

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 Год назад +7

    I would love to have a big farm like that and the equipment to keep it in shape

  • @SkippyJmc
    @SkippyJmc Год назад +6

    I have to say this is in the top 3 channels I enjoy. You are a great storyteller. Keep up the amazing work! 🤙

  • @Gotimenick
    @Gotimenick Год назад +5

    Really enjoyed this documentary. Great old time sounding narration 👍🏻

  • @judyingram-kh1vm
    @judyingram-kh1vm 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great story, thank you for sharing ❤

  • @edwardkellogg1284
    @edwardkellogg1284 Год назад +22

    This story was intense. It sounds like it was a mini Civil war. Thank you JD.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +2

      It was a mini civil war!

    • @jackshaftoe1715
      @jackshaftoe1715 Год назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Did the North win again ? Were the traitors executed this time so we don't have to put up with their race hate ?

    • @reqhskslkwe4480
      @reqhskslkwe4480 Год назад

      ​@@TheAppalachianStorytelleris there a movie of this incident??

  • @jerryhilliard4233
    @jerryhilliard4233 6 месяцев назад +4

    My great grandfather James Keeling fought in the Civil War Battle " Defender of The Bridge" in Strawberry Plains TN id appricate any information you might have on him please he is burried in East Lawn Cemetery in Bristol, VA his hand he lost in the battle is burried in someones yard in Strawberry Plains, TN

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  6 месяцев назад +1

      If I run across any, ill let you know

    • @jerryhilliard4233
      @jerryhilliard4233 6 месяцев назад

      @TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you are you related to Bud Phillips that wrote the book about Bristol TN

  • @karenbrewer5864
    @karenbrewer5864 Год назад +4

    What a story! I had never heard about this before. I think I would have moved away if I had lived there in those times. Thanks!

  • @davidcunningham2074
    @davidcunningham2074 7 месяцев назад +3

    terrific story.

  • @rescuedrestorations
    @rescuedrestorations Год назад +2

    Thanks! Enjoy your channel... and prob related one way or another to all these people... Subscribed

  • @larrystultz7545
    @larrystultz7545 Год назад +4

    👍👍 thank you JD

  • @royfrierson1280
    @royfrierson1280 Месяц назад +1

    Excellent work. Wonder where the other 13 boys were when they were held up in the cabin

  • @peterhoulihan9766
    @peterhoulihan9766 Год назад +9

    That was incredible, a great story well told. There's two sides to every story but I'm finding it hard to side with the Holbrooks.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад

      Me too

    • @drewf8619
      @drewf8619 Год назад

      In most of these feuds between "I am/was for slavery" people vs "I'm not/wasn't for slavery" people... The pro slavery ones were the usually the bigger pieces of sh*t...
      No shock really.

  • @ianlauhon8760
    @ianlauhon8760 Год назад +3

    Thats crazy grew up in bordering boyd county and have never heard this before

  • @marilynamy3823
    @marilynamy3823 Год назад +3

    Another great story. Thank you.

  • @TheJmwilkiejr
    @TheJmwilkiejr Год назад +2

    "the powerful combination of whiskey and cards" love

  • @pauliedibbs9028
    @pauliedibbs9028 Год назад +4

    Just found your channel and I love it!
    Consider me a new and happy subscriber 😎

  • @sharonlacy1837
    @sharonlacy1837 Год назад +4

    Love these stories. Great storyteller!

  • @joemamma416
    @joemamma416 Год назад +6

    I'm a descendant of the Burchfields of cades cove in the great smoky mountains in Tennessee. Look into the crime they were into in the chestnut flats section of the cove.

  • @MariusLefter-l5c
    @MariusLefter-l5c 5 месяцев назад +3

    Nice choice of soundtrack! Ps. Impressive loyalty of the women and kids! To stay with a dead body for 19 days, low on food and water... Man, you realise it was no joke about this people! If the women and kids are thay way, man are way more scary than the storry tells!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much on all points! I work hard on the music being a musician myself. And yes... the WOMEN in this story holding off a group of blood thirsty assassins for 19 days! Wow!

  • @DJoeClark
    @DJoeClark Год назад +8

    I live on the Rowan and Carter County line. Fort Underwood was located not far from me at all, or so I've been told. I knew OF this feud, but I'd never really researched it. So I thoroughly enjoyed this.

  • @sheltowee8079
    @sheltowee8079 Год назад +2

    By far one of your best works ol son!!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад

      preciate that my friend

    • @sheltowee8079
      @sheltowee8079 Год назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller when people say oh I love the stories of home they usually mean a general area, you tell some of these stories and to an ol boy born in Middlesboro and raised up in Louisa you know exactly where these places are and possibly some of the people in the stories kin, these are always amazing!!

  • @cindyrossi4266
    @cindyrossi4266 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you! My GGGrandfather was ol’George Underwood on my mothers side. I’m curious.. we’re those actual photos of the Underwood’s? I recognize the Fort, and understand that it still exists. Planning a trip to Kentucky this spring to see for myself.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  11 месяцев назад

      They were not actual photos of the characters, since now of quality were available

  • @nanabell402000
    @nanabell402000 Год назад +5

    This was amazing! Your storytelling is engrossing, I was on the edge of my seat! New sub! Thank you😊

  • @1975jstar
    @1975jstar Год назад +4

    There is a Holbrook farm south of Ft Wayne, Indiana on US 27. Would be interesting to see if there is any connection? Indiana is not too far from KY. Could be distant relatives. Will have to ask my Mom. They are her relatives on her moms side.

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 Год назад +4

    I pray everything is going great your way Amen 🙏

  • @barrettkegley2086
    @barrettkegley2086 Год назад +2

    Thanks for the story JD! I had never heard of this fued. I live in Menifee, about a hour or so away from Carter Co

  • @jerrywinters6914
    @jerrywinters6914 Год назад +4

    Well done, Squire Holbrook is my 1st Cousin 4 X Removed.

  • @maryMartinez1813
    @maryMartinez1813 Год назад +2

    Thank you.

  • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
    @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +20

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    • @trophywatersfishing9524
      @trophywatersfishing9524 Год назад +2

      Can you do a segment on my family. The Shelton laural massacre. They matched them to Knoxville from north Carolina during the war over salt. The salt trade was huge. Thanks take a look at history from the mountains of Appalachia. Thanks

    • @trophywatersfishing9524
      @trophywatersfishing9524 Год назад +2

      Btw they killed them all

    • @My-alienate-my-baby
      @My-alienate-my-baby Год назад

      😊

    • @lenking410
      @lenking410 Год назад

      Think the Clay County War would disagree.

    • @sigitasbasys207
      @sigitasbasys207 Год назад

      👍🏻👌🙂🇺🇲

  • @cathyheston3029
    @cathyheston3029 Год назад +3

    Love these ❤ Now trying to confirm some history from my youth memories.

  • @richardallen7509
    @richardallen7509 Год назад +3

    First time watching 👍🏿just subscribed
    Growing up all i heard about was Hatfield and McCoy feud. This was way more violent and way more interesting. Will be looking up what else you have 🙏🏿❤️

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +1

      preciate that brother, welcome to the channel! feel free to dig in, especially the "Appalachias Deadliest" series on my channel if you like outlaws and feuds. By the way I have another feud coming out next Saturday that would make the hats and mccoys blush. Stay tuned

  • @loquat44-40
    @loquat44-40 Год назад +5

    I am amazed at the wounds these people survived without the benefits of the modern ER and intensive care wards. But also that rural people especially mountain folk had a lot of practical knowledge with intimate knowledge of plants and other available things to treat illness. Also the firearms of the days, especially the handguns had a lot less velocity producing less tissue damage with hollow point pistol bullets being something for the future.

  • @josephcox6632
    @josephcox6632 Год назад +2

    The picture at 8:19 is of John Burns, the civilian who fought at Gettysburg.

  • @SistaCalista
    @SistaCalista Год назад +5

    Thanks for all your good work... it's great! On the idea of deadly feuds, would you consider covering the Tragedy at Fayerdale (Virginia) sometime?

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад

      if you have any links, names, dates, etc... please email me at theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com

  • @dianamarcelo3
    @dianamarcelo3 Год назад +3

    Awesome story. I love all your videos❤

  • @Wutbuttonshoots
    @Wutbuttonshoots Год назад +3

    Great story telling and production. You’ve earned a new subscriber!

  • @TheRampagingGallowglass75
    @TheRampagingGallowglass75 Год назад +6

    All those Appalachian feuds were essentially an extension of the violent border warfare that raged all across the Celtic realms of the British Isles for centuries up until the early-mid 17th Century, before being transported to the American backcountry.
    From along the English-Scottish border to the battlefields of Ulster in Northern Ireland raiding parties & savage battles were endemic & a common occurrence. Those from those regions who began leaving in droves during the early-mid 1700s before disembarking along an East Coast port & making their way to the Colonial frontier brought with them to the New World many clannish traits, customs & warlike attributes that they had been cultivating for generations back in Celtic Britain (Western Europe's premier warrior races from the late Medieval Era to the mid 1700s, including the Gaelic Irish & the western Scots Highlanders!).
    And although the link with the Old Country was largely broken even after two generations of relocation a bond still existed, spiritual, primal & even a cultural one to a degree.
    Those rugged Appalachian men depicted above were being haunted & exhorted by the restless ghosts of their bloody Celtic past.

  • @suburbanhillbilly2999
    @suburbanhillbilly2999 Год назад +3

    Wow. Just wow!

  • @gailweikelcorrea
    @gailweikelcorrea Год назад +4

    Love it....♥️

  • @jimhardy4469
    @jimhardy4469 Год назад +2

    This should be a movie I’d watch it over and over

  • @rockyraccoon8270
    @rockyraccoon8270 Год назад +2

    Well told ,thank you

  • @peggyreid6836
    @peggyreid6836 Год назад +5

    I've said many a time that my mom was born in Tennessee. The county was Carter County and the community was Crabtree.
    Man, that reminded me of the Hatfields and McCoys. Glad we don't hold grudges like that nowadays.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      Little known fact- there was more violence in this feud than the hatfields and McCoy ever had

    • @frostyfrances4700
      @frostyfrances4700 Год назад +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Where I retired in the place I call TinyTown USA, the churches had to be closed 1861-65 bc people turned them into shooting galleries. Today they only celebrate seniors graduating high school by letting (?) them conduct an absolute riot on the courthouse grounds where LEO housed in the building pretend not to notice "unless we need an ambulance". The kids speed around the square honking horns and then spill out onto the lawn where they attack each other with fists instead of guns or knives. I suppose that's considered progress. To them anyway. The civilized world doesn't.

    • @PeaceIntheValley
      @PeaceIntheValley Год назад +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller A lot more since much of Hatfields and McCoys seems made up by the newspaper men. The fact vs fiction doesn't seem very close when considering the court documents. it appears that it was more of wealthy NYC financiers trying to acquire the richest coal fields in the world.

    • @peggyreid6836
      @peggyreid6836 Год назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller that is just plain scary.

  • @stevenfunderburg1623
    @stevenfunderburg1623 Год назад +3

    As a fan of both Soundtrack scores and the heaviest of metal music, I will be taking a closer look at the Mini Vandals and Brian Bolger.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +1

      look at Mini Vandals... they are legit

    • @stevenfunderburg1623
      @stevenfunderburg1623 Год назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller In the process and thanks for turning me on to them in maybe the last channel on earth I would expect it 🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @donnamitchell7857
    @donnamitchell7857 Месяц назад +1

    You are an amazing storyteller!

  • @GrumpyGenXGramps
    @GrumpyGenXGramps 11 месяцев назад +3

    Do you play the music on these videos or get online somewheres?
    Where can download em to listen to? I like the banjo and fiddle tunes but really like the delta blues guitar tune!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  11 месяцев назад +1

      I’m a lifelong musician and I play most of the music myself

    • @GrumpyGenXGramps
      @GrumpyGenXGramps 11 месяцев назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller do you have downloadable music?? I REALLY enjoy the music on your videos! You are a talented man!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  11 месяцев назад

      I may release some in 2024, stay tuned!@@GrumpyGenXGramps

    • @GrumpyGenXGramps
      @GrumpyGenXGramps 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller please do and let me know when ya do! And if I may, I’d request some of that delta blues ya did in the front of this story!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  11 месяцев назад

      yes sir@@GrumpyGenXGramps

  • @Trendlespin
    @Trendlespin Год назад +8

    So very sad. A lesson on what holding a grudge can do.

  • @Dlynn54
    @Dlynn54 Год назад +6

    Southerners consisted of both pro-confederates and pro-unionists. Many feuds continued in communities way after the Civil war was over. Thanks for this story.

  • @j.b.4340
    @j.b.4340 Год назад +7

    Well told. Wild story. Much of it must be missing to history.

  • @lsjionredlinesupercharged2049
    @lsjionredlinesupercharged2049 Год назад +3

    Very good

  • @janapetty2806
    @janapetty2806 Год назад +2

    Excellent story as usual

  • @jamesdeen3011
    @jamesdeen3011 Год назад +6

    I love that intro. I've gotta watch this again.

  • @myersparanormal
    @myersparanormal Год назад +5

    Lord have mercy this was a sad story but that's how it is in Appalachia

  • @daniello9155
    @daniello9155 Год назад +2

    Great piece of US history. Surprised they havent made a movie on it.

  • @earlofsmeg
    @earlofsmeg Год назад +8

    I reckon the feuds came from the old country. Scotland. There were clan feuds for centuries.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Год назад +3

      Probably right

    • @mustelidpeter
      @mustelidpeter Год назад

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Probably wrong. They are not Scottish surnames.

    • @scotoftheanarchic.7903
      @scotoftheanarchic.7903 Год назад

      ​​​@@mustelidpeterderwood is both Scottish and English surname.

    • @mustelidpeter
      @mustelidpeter Год назад

      Accordig to Ancestry in 1891 there were 166 Underwood families living in Scotland and about 15,000 in the rest of the UK. It is an English surname that is found very occasionally in Scotland. Please refrain from making every thing Scottish.I would never dream of saying that Stewart is an English surname, enen though there are many thousands in England.@@scotoftheanarchic.7903

    • @Andyd2585
      @Andyd2585 Год назад

      The Appalachian mountains and the Scottish highlands are also part of the same mountain range, just part of it is under the Atlantic