The Hillsville tragedy: Appalachian stereotypes as examined through the Carroll County Courtroom Shootout of 1912

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dc.contributor.authorCheek, April C.en
dc.contributor.committeechairShifflett, Crandall A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberEkirch, A. Rogeren
dc.contributor.committeememberJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:27:42Zen
dc.date.adate2009-01-24en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:27:42Zen
dc.date.issued1998-05-02en
dc.date.rdate2009-01-24en
dc.date.sdate2009-01-24en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a community study that centers on the Carroll County Courtroom Shootout of 1912. The shootout provides an opportunity to examine the dynamics of a small Appalachian community by looking at the years leading up to 1912. This study focuses on issues of causality, including a series of intense political feuds, land disputes, and general hostilities between certain members of the court administration and members of a particular family within the county. This thesis adds to revisionist histories on Appalachia and serves as a corrective to views of the region as monolithic, isolated, and impoverished. By placing the Hillsville Shootout in a historical framework for the first time, one can explain and deconstruct some of the myths surrounding the Carroll County tragedy and more generally Appalachia itself.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentiii, 124 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-01242009-063139en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01242009-063139/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/40738en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1998.C544.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 39946147en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCarroll Countyen
dc.subjectviolenceen
dc.subjectstereotypesen
dc.subjectAppalachiaen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1998.C544en
dc.titleThe Hillsville tragedy: Appalachian stereotypes as examined through the Carroll County Courtroom Shootout of 1912en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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