The Taylor-Mullins Feud: The Road to the Killing Rock
The infamous Killing Rock massacre ended with the deaths of a moonshiner and his wife and several of their friends on a mountain along the Virginia-Kentucky border. It began years earlier with a lawsu...
1 Aug 22min
Franklin's Last Battle: Sevier's Attack at Flint Creek
In the winter of 1789, Cherokee war leader John Watts made a daring decision. Instead of returning to the Chickamauga towns as he usually did for the winter, he established a hidden winter camp deep i...
25 Jul 21min
47 Years a Hermit: The Strange Afterlife of William Hewitt
In the late 1780s a man from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, William Hewitt, crossed the Ohio River seeking to find solitude in the Appalachian wilderness after heartbreak changed his life forever. Livi...
18 Jul 15min
The Untamable Monster Well of 1894: Big Moses
In September 1894, a routine drilling operation on a Tyler County, West Virginia, farm broke into a massive natural gas pocket, unleashing one of the most powerful and uncontrollable wells the world h...
11 Jul 14min
The Devil in the Mountains- The Story of Vincent "Clawhammer" Witcher
Vincent “Clawhammer” Witcher became one of the most feared Confederate guerrilla leaders along the Virginia/Kentucky border in the Civil War. As the leader of what was called “Witcher’s Boys, he oper...
4 Jul 32min
A Witness to History: The Frontier Life of Captain William Asher
The early settlements along the Watauga and Holston Rivers in what’s now Tennessee were the very beginning of "The Wild West." While names like Daniel Boone, John Sevier, and William Bean filled the h...
27 Jun 14min
Appalachia's Forgotten Uprising: Claypool's Rebellion
In 1781, as the American Revolution raged, Appalachian settlers in what’s now West Virginia rose in armed rebellion against the Virginia government. Angry over crushing taxes, forced military service,...
20 Jun 16min
A State of Natural Liberty: The Incredible Life of Quill Rose
Quill Rose was a Confederate veteran, bear hunter, blacksmith, storyteller, and moonshiner who lived deep in the Smoky Mountains along Eagle Creek. In this episode of Stories of Appalachia, we tell hi...
13 Jun 15min
