Cheek, April C.2014-03-142014-03-141998-05-02etd-01242009-063139http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40738This 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.iii, 124 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightCarroll CountyviolencestereotypesAppalachiaLD5655.V855 1998.C544Thesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01242009-063139/