Return to Matewan: Western Justice Comes to West Virginia

by R.G. Yoho

In the early 1900s, the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency played a brutal and bloody role in the union strikes and violence that took place in both Matewan, West Virginia, and Ludlow, Colorado. As ruthless as they were effective, the Baldwin-Felts' detectives were loved by the mine owners, but universally feared and hated by the coal miners and their families. On August 1, 1921, when agents of Baldwin-Felts murdered an unarmed Sid Hatfield on the courthouse steps in Welch, West Virginia, they had no way of knowing that the constable's illegitimate son was also among those in the crowd. Two years later, young Billy Hatfield begins seeking revenge upon the agents who murdered his father. Desperate to capture him, Baldwin-Felts calls in their most dependable troubleshooter, Morgan Cobb, who was born and raised in the town of Matewan. The son of Sheriff Sid Hatfield enters into a life-and-death struggle with Morgan Cobb, an agent of Baldwin-Felts. So begins the gripping, historical novel... Return to Matewan.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2019

About the author

R.G. Yoho is a West Virginia native with a passion for history and tales of the American West. A proud member of the Western Writers of America and a 2022 Spur Award finalist, he's author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction.

Yoho is also America's foremost authority on the life of Baldwin-Felts Agent and notorious coal mine spy, Charles E. Lively, who he profiled in the biography, "Charles E. Lively. The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars."

Yoho's varied career includes speaker, radio talk show host and political columnist, as well as a retired laboratory technician and process operator in the chemicals industry. Yoho is also the past president of the West Virginia Writers, Inc.

He lives in Southeast Ohio, near the Ohio-West Virginia border, with his wife of 43 years. They have three children, a nephew who is like a son and twelve grandchildren.

Yoho grew up on a cattle farm. Today, along with his son and grandsons, the author raises registered Texas Longhorns.

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