To Shoot, Burn, and Hang: Folk-History from a Kentucky Mountain Family and Community

by Daniel N. Rolph

To Shoot, Burn, and Hang offers a rare glimpse into the values, beliefs, fears, and prejudices of an Appalachian community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing largely on the oral narratives of his own family members and of other residents of Fleming County, Kentucky, Daniel Rolph vividly reconstructs four dramatic episodes from the community's past. Those episodes include an anti-temperance mob action in 1884, a witch...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870498444
• ISBN13: 9780870498442
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"