Talk:Rowan County War

Casualty mis-match?

From the article's introduction: "In total, 20 people died and 16 were wounded."

From the article's background section: "... in a conflict that took 30 lives."

Anyone have a resolution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.111.52.52 (talk) 15:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Casualty mis-match - I had to read it twice..

The 30 people died in the 'Underwood-Holbrook'(U-H) feud, the 16 died in the "Toliver-Martin" (T-M) feud. That's not to say that this article couldn't use some clarification. When I click on the 'Underwood-Holbrook'(U-H) link it takes me right back to this page.

So were U-H and T-M feuds BOTH part of the Rowen County War, or were they considered separate? If separate, then perhaps a 'stub' should be created for U-H, and the link updated to point to it until such time as a more information can be provided.

If U-H AND T-M are considered part of the Rowen County war then perhaps a 'time-line' of events of each phase of the war should be written.

Quite franlky, I had never hear of any of this until I read the article on S.B. Buckner - it's quite facinating. If I am able to find some attributed history, or primary documents, I will try to spruce it up, but that could take years...(I am a slow reader)

If the author know the answers, and can add them to the article, it might make for easier reading — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.136.15.149 (talk) 15:46, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Reference Book - Days of Anger, Days of Tears

To the preceding question, the Underwood-Holbrook feud and the Tolliver-Martin feud aka The Rowan County War are generally considered separate but related feuds, since they were separated by four years of stand down, and occurred in different counties. There is an excellent, well documented book by Fred Brown and Juanita Blair that covers both feuds, called "Days of Anger, Days of Tears". It would probably be good to list it as a reference somehow, but I do not know the proper method to do so when it was not used by the article's authors as one of their sources. Is a link to a publisher web site kosher on Wikipedia? There are also many contemporary newspaper articles about the feud on the sites that have images of old newspapers, but they tend to be subscription sites. Fred and Juanita's book has transcriptions of most of the important newspaper accounts, though. Teri Pettit (talk) 21:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)