Introduction / Bruce E. Stewart
Violence, statecraft, and statehood in the early republic : the state of Franklin, 1784-1788 / Kevin T. Barksdale
"Devoted to hardships, danger, and devastation" : the landscape of Indian and white violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1753-1800 / Kathryn Shively Meier
"Our mad young men" : authority and violence in Cherokee country / Tyler Boulware
The "ferocious character" of antebellum Georgia's gold country : frontier lawlessness and violence in fact and fiction / John C. Inscoe
"A possession, or an absence of ears" : the shape of violence in travel narratives about the mountain South, 1779-1835 / Katherine E. Ledford
Violence against slaves as a catalyst in changing attitudes toward slavery : an 1857 case study in east Tennessee / Durwood Dunn
"These big-boned, semi-barbarian people" : moonshining and the myth of violent Appalachia, 1870-1900 / Bruce E.Stewart
"Deep in the shades of ill-starred Georgia's wood" : the murder of Elder Joseph Standing in late-nineteenth-century Appalachian Georgia / Mary Ella Engel
Race and violence in urbanizing Appalachia : the Roanoke riot of 1893 / Rand Dotson
Assassins and feudists : politics and death in the Bluegrass and mountains of Kentucky / T.R.C. Hutton
"A hard-bitten lot" : nonstrike violence in the early southern West Virginia smokeless coalfields, 1880-1910 / Paul H. Rakes and Kenneth R. Bailey
"The largest manhunt in western North Carolina's history" : the story of Broadus Miller / Kevin W. Young
The murder of Thomas Price : image, identity, and violence in western North Carolina / Richard D. Starnes.
