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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

317: The Deadly Colson-Scott Feud w/ Thomas E. Stephens

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On January 16, 1900, a bitter feud between a former Kentucky congressman and colonel named David Grant Colson and a fellow officer, Ethelbert Dudley Scott, reached its bloody climax as they fought it out with pistols in a crowded hotel lobby in Frankfort. Both believed their honor had been besmirched by the other, and that the death of one of them was the inevitable outcome. My guest is Thomas E. Stephens, who has a personal connection to this story, and wrote about it in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society in 2000. More about the author and his work at his Amazon page here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Thomas-E.-Stephens/author/B003D8MHKW The author's article: Stephens, Thomas E. Congressman David Grant Colson and the Tragedy of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol. 98, No. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 43-102 This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://www.betterhelp.com/notorious to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello all, and welcome to Most Notorious.

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It's so great to have Thomas E. Stevens with me.

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He is the principal writer and researcher for Think History,

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a podcast produced by the Kentucky Humanities Council,

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through W-E-K-U-F-M in Richmond, Kentucky.

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He is the author of Civil War Game Changers,

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