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them, among other things, to accept the role of researcher/advocate, for only by so doing will the researcher be able to see into the depths of this group, still so much stereotyped and maligned. Roger Doss. The Killing of a Court. Roanoke, Virginia: Marathon Graphics, 1994. 138 pages. $12.00. This book is an unusual mixture of history and fiction. The central event around which the book is built is the famous Carroll County, Virginia, courthouse shootout in Hillsboro, on March 14, 1912, which killed a judge, sheriff, prosecuting attorney, jury foreman and an innocent bystander. The perpetrators were all members of the prominent Allen family. The Aliens were Democrats, while those then controlling county affairs were Republicans. Roger Doss, himself a dedicated and life-long Southwest Virginian, has crafted a romantic story to surround the "Hillsville Massacre" which is quite engaging, while also presenting various aspects of early twentieth-century mountain life in small towns and on farms. His story includes fairly convincing accounts of a cornshucking, moonshining, funerals, schooling, a budding romance and the trials of a young man just coming to maturity. Actually Doss's command of early twentieth-century life seems firmer than his relatively thinly documented accounts of
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1994
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