[Theoria]

#7 on the NYT best seller list. Not bad. People have always been curious of our own legends and myths as a nation.

I think a definite account of the War of Regulation would make a great impact on the people today. Especially in the times we live in. People seldom mention it today.

[RegulatorCountry]

There were two “fronts” with two distinct groups with grievances that varied. One was in the North Carolina frontier backcountry, the other was in the South Carolina frontier backcountry. They both were successfully repressed with the NC Regulator movement ultimately facing something that would be plausibly considered a war, and brutality was common on both sides. Both groups were forced to flee into the Blue Ridge and beyond, forming a core of the group largely responsible for the British defeat at King's Mountain.

Powell of UNC has written fairly extensively on the topic, an accomplished historian. He sometimes lacked the human element that makes for compelling storytelling, though. For instance, Ninian Hamilton, such a colorful figure, both literally and figuratively. Given short shrift despite being celebrated in song by Regulators. He was an ancestor of mine.

There's a group somehow affiliated with a Baptist church in Michigan of all places, that has attempted a screen adaptation of events leading to the NC Regulator War, might want to look to them. I'd heard it was fairly compelling and reasonably well done despite a largely amateur cast.