 After his time on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, Hines returned to practicing law in Frankfort, Kentucky.In 1886, Hines began writing a series of four articles discussing the Northwest Conspiracy for Basil W. Duke's "Southern Bivouac" magazine.The magazine was dedicated to the memory of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, but was less adversarial than similar Southern magazines, gaining a larger Northern readership than similar journals.