A manhunt for a fugitive moonshiner devolves into an apocalpytic conflagration of UFOs, possessed hordes of crazies, and sinister conspiracies.

A half-breed and a white man. For years their legend has grown, but few know how far they will go for one another or the roots of their blood bond. Now, that bond will be put to the most deadly test yet. . . When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to have a lovely daughter of his own. . . What happens when you mix 200-proof corn liquor with intoxicating women and two friends on opposite sides of the law? Big trouble. And more is coming: bearing down on the town of Cottonwood is a murderous bootlegger, hired gunmen and a gambler with a plan of his own. As a killing storm crashes over Cottonwood, the odds favor the man who is stone cold sober, good with a red hot gun--and backed by unbreakable bonds of blood. . .

This story explores my mother's first cousin three times removed, Ira "Bad Ira" Mullins and the Pound Gap Massacre. This story was handed down to my mother who enlightened me, as I have done with my children. This story is one of the wildest stories ever told to me as well as one of my absolute favorites. The Mullins families were early settlers to Letcher County, Kentucky, Wise County, Virginia, and parts of southern West Virginia.

This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.

An only child of a widowed mother, Tipper Campbell is anything but ordinary. Among a people lost in the late twentieth century in the backwoods, Appalachian town of Possum Holler, West Virginia, Tipper has a plan-He is going to be an entrepreneur.His business? Moonshine whiskey. His goal? Put Possum Holler on the map.But all his good intentions take a turn for the unknown when his childhood love, Amy Dent, deserts him and their three daughters, leaving him without a clue what he did to drive her away. When he discovers the sad truth, can his spirit survive? Will a new, unexpected love heal his broken heart? Can Tipper stay his course and make his way to Easy Street? Will his dreams come to fruition?