426 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
HINDMAN MOUNTAIN is visible (R) for miles along the high-
wa .
Xt 30 m. is the junction with a marked road, passable in dry weather.
Left on this road, which follows Terry Fork Creek, to CANEY CREEK JUNIOR
CoLLEcE AND COMMUNITY CENTER at the village of PIPPAPASS, 3.5 m. The
center, which is supported by free-will offerings, was founded by Mrs. Alice Lloyd
in 1917, and consists of a 175-acre farm and 30 buildings. Its activities include
clubs, a Sunday school, and health clinics; a lower-form school and a fully accred-
ited county high school are maintained in co-operation with Knott County. The
junior college is a private institution under the management of the center; it is
coeducational and fully accredited. The organization makes it possible for the
most promising students to attend universities.
· HINDMAN, 34 m. (1,032 alt., 508 pop.), seat of Knott County,
lies in a narrow valley at the forks of Troublesome Creek. Its 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 (see Tour 19) 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 Daniel’s
Hill they were Bred on by the Wright band. In the fight that followed
several men were wounded and the sheriff’s horse was killed. ("Devil
]ohn" Wright, leader of the Wright faction, later paid for the animal
because he "regretted the killing of a fine horse.") After the first en-
counter 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
other’s capture. Although this feud lasted several years and was re-
sponsible for the death of more than 150 men, all of its participants who
were tried in court were cleared. While the feud lasted, all the men
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 its score.
]ohn 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 built a brick house
that was one of the first of its 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, ]r. (see Tours 17A—19) lived in
Wright’s home while gathering material for his stories.