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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well yeah there were machine gunners at the battle of Blair mountain

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    also plenty of historically bad neighborhoods, and towns, with long histories of violent crime.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Also the genocide and wars, though idk how much of that was on mountains rather than in valleys

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Yeah, there really isn't any recorded history for that, unfortunately. From what I am to understand most of the natives in Appalachia died after DeSoto tore through the place looking for precious metals as he basically was just a bio-weapon.

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