the harlan county feud; all the result of a drunken quarrel. a faction war that has cost many lives and still disgraces the state of kentucky. share full article. oct. 28, 1889.

One of the toughest anti-labor spots in the whole U.S. last week signed a union-shop agreement. So ended a war which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century between United Mine Workers and the ...

Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to “throw the fear of God” into Harlan ...

So asked Florence Reese, an American social activist, poet and folksinger-songwriter in Harlan County, Ky., as she rallied coal miners during the brutal 1931-39 Harlan County War; which pitted ...