08-02-2020, 01:04 PM
Specifically the "Three Forks" area in the mountains around the North, South, and Middle Forks of the Kentucky River?
My dad was from Breathitt County, but he was raised in an extremely isolated area and left home when he was just a teenager. He did not really know a lot about the local history. I have recently been reading the book "Bloody Breathitt" and it has some fascinating history. In the late 1800's and early 1900's newspapers and magazines all over the country wrote about the violence in this area. It was basically all rooted in political divisions that came to a head during the Civil War, but the national media, and even the urban newspapers in the "Blue Grass" region of Kentucky treated it all like drunken hillbillies shooting each other over petty personal family feuds.
Just wondering if any of you have any old family legends from that area.
My daughter can not believe that my my father's father was born during the reconstruction era (1878). It seems like ancient ancient history to her.
My dad was from Breathitt County, but he was raised in an extremely isolated area and left home when he was just a teenager. He did not really know a lot about the local history. I have recently been reading the book "Bloody Breathitt" and it has some fascinating history. In the late 1800's and early 1900's newspapers and magazines all over the country wrote about the violence in this area. It was basically all rooted in political divisions that came to a head during the Civil War, but the national media, and even the urban newspapers in the "Blue Grass" region of Kentucky treated it all like drunken hillbillies shooting each other over petty personal family feuds.
Just wondering if any of you have any old family legends from that area.
My daughter can not believe that my my father's father was born during the reconstruction era (1878). It seems like ancient ancient history to her.
