Hindman seat of Knott County lies in a narrow valley at the forks of Troublesome Creek. It's main street with a school at one end and a church at the other, stretches along the stream, steep rugged mountains rise precipitously above it. Hindman consisted of three houses a store and a water-power mill when Knott County with a scattered population of 2,000 was formed. One of the most notorious feuds of the Kentucky mountains began near the end of the eighteenth century in Hindman as a result of the killing of Linvin Higgins. Dolph Drawn a deputy sheriff of Knott county organized a posse and started for Letcher County with warrants for the arrest of William Wright and two other men accused of the murder.
When the sheriff's men reached Daniels Hill they were fired on by the Wright Band. In the fight that followed several men were
wounded and the sheriff's horse was killed. "Devil John" Wright leader of the faction later paid for the animal because he regretted
the killing of a fine horse.
After the first encounter Clabe Jones led Drawn's party and at one time both Jones and Wright not only had warrants for the arrest of the other but had also succeeded in persuading the Governor to offer a reward for each others capture. Although this feud lasted several years and was responsible for the death of more than 150 men, all it's participants who were tried in court were cleared. While the feud lasted, all the man who took part in it had a glorious time, when the enemy was not near at hand the partisans sat about cleaning guns boasting of what they were going to do at the next encounter rehearsing the details of past battles, and planning strategy that included travel by night, ambush decoying tactics and raids. Those who were killed were buried secretly to keep the enemy from knowing it's score. John Wright who played such a prominent part in the war, had accumulated quite a fortune in the lumber business and is described as a man of splendid mind and some education. He build a brick house that was one of the first of it's kind in Letcher, County and he brought glass from Virginia to build a greenhouse in which to grow the flowers that were his hobby.
John Fox Jr. lived in Wright's home while gathering material for his stories. The Gaitskill Farm is the birth place of John Fox Jr. the son of a schoolmaster entered Transylvania university in 1878 when he was only 15. After two years he transferred to Harvard from which he was graduated in 1883, the youngest man in his class.
He joined the staff of the New York Sun and later entered the Columbia law school, but soon abandoned law and joined the staff of the New York Times. After a few months illness compelled him to move to the south

Here is a story i read in a book called "Kentucky" a guide to the Bluegrass State. Compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project
of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky. Sponsored by the University of Kentucky.