A primitive Kentucky murderer, Curt Jett, 55, became a Baptist preacher at Union City, Ky. last week. The incident recalled the fast fading culture of mountainous Kentucky.
The Indians called the region the "Dark and Bloody Ground" because the Cherokees and Iroquois almost wiped each other out fighting for its possession. Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was...
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