Welcome to the Official
Site for
Kevin D. McCann
Author of Hurst's Wurst and Jackson
Diamonds
The site was last updated on May 7, 2008
The Fabulous David Crockett
January 19, 2008
 I've
been a history buff (or nut, whichever one prefers) since I was a
little kid. I wanted to stop and read every roadside Tennessee
historical marker and practically every family vacation included
some kind of historical attraction for my benefit. My grandparents
also tolerated my interests and did the same when I went places
with them. And I always wanted to stop at the gift shop (there's
always one at the end of the tour) and buy a souvenir.
Read the rest on his blog at www.kevindmccann.blogspot.com
Adam Huntsman Book
November 27, 2007
In addition to the Liberty
Church book, Kevin also plans to publish a second, revised
edition of The
Peg-Legged Politician: The Life of Adam Huntsman tentatively
for Fall 2008. Like Hurst's Wurst,
it will be expanded and available in paperback and hardback
formats.
Adam Huntsman is best known as the man who set
David Crockett "going to Texas" and legendary status as
a hero at the Alamo. He defeated the incumbent Crockett in his
re-election bid to Congress in 1835.
Liberty Church Book
November 25, 2007
Several people have asked that one of Kevin's earlier
books, The History of
Liberty Church and School, be made available once again. He
would like to publish a revised and expanded edition with updated
cemetery entries and memories of attending church, school, of
Decorations there.
Ideally he would like to have it ready for the annual
Decoration on the second Sunday in May 2008. If you or any family
members might have information, photos, or memories to share, please
contact him.
Hurst's Wurst
Available Now!
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The fourth edition of Hurst's
Wurst: Col. Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry
U.S.A. is truly a new edition with
expanded chapters and lots of new material not published in
the earlier editions. It's come a long way from the first
book I published, which was done on my old typewriter and
photocopied at the local Kinko's Copies where I used to
work!
Hurst's Wurst has been my most popular
title to date. I can't tell you how many times I've received
letters and phone calls from people I didn't know asking me
if I had anymore copies left. But for the past few years,
I've had to tell them I had none. Bless him, Brad Borden
(my Hurst comrade over at www.hurstnation.com),
was among the most persistent!
But like many writers who look back on
their past work, I knew I could do a better job and I didn't
want to release what I felt was an inferior narrative. I
wrote Hurst's Wurst while I was in college (or maybe just
after) and there were parts of it that I read 12 years later
and just cringed! So not only did I want a revised edition
to look better, I also wanted it to read better too.
Hopefully I'm a few years wiser and a bit more articulate
now!
I've also tried to broaden my focus a
little. The first three editions largely focused on what the
Sixth Tennessee Cavalry did as a group. I've tried to expand
it to explain what Southern Unionists as a whole were going
through before, during, and after the war. I've also devoted
a new chapter entitled "Guerrillas In The Midst"
to the guerrilla warfare that was going on in southwest
Tennessee. (Remember the movie with Sigourney Weaver back in
the 80's, "Gorillas in the Mist"? It was a little
play on words I couldn't resist.) It has been a largely
ignored part of the Civil War in West Tennessee.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me
along the way. The wait is almost over!
Check the Hurst's Wurst
page for details!
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