Nearly every American has heard of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The violent feud between these two families has become shorthand for fierce, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, until THE FEUD nobody has ever told the true story of this legendary clash in the heart of Appalachia.
Drawing upon years of original research, including the discovery of previously lost and ignored evidence and interviews with surviving relatives of both families, Dean King has crafted a rip-roaring narrative packed with brutal murders, reckless affairs, mercenaries and detectives, and the long shadows of the Civil War. The result is an unvarnished and vastly entertaining work of history.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reprint. For more than a century the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate unyielding and even violent confrontation Yet despite numerous articles books television shows and feature films nobody has ever told the indepth true story of this legendarily fierceand farreachingclash in the heart of Appalachia Drawing upon years of original research including the discovery of previously lost and ignored documents and interviews with relatives of both families bestselling author Dean King finally gives us the full unvarnished tale one vastly more enthralling than the mythUnlike previous accounts Kings begins in the midnineteenth century when the Hatfields and McCoys lived sidebyside in relative harmony Theirs was a hardscrabble life of farming and hunting timbering and moonshiningand raising large and boisterous familiesin the rugged hollows and hills of Virginia and Kentucky Cut off from much of the outside world these descendants of ScotsIrish and English pioneers spoke a language many Americans would find hard to understand Yet contrary to popular belief the Hatfields and McCoys were established and influential landowners who had intermarried and worked together for decadesWhen the Civil War came and the outside world crashed into their lives family members were forced to choose sides After the war the lines that had been drawn remainedand the violence not only lived on but became personal By the time the fury finally subsided a dozen family members would be in the grave The hostilities grew to be a national spectacle and the cycle of killing kidnapping stalking by bounty hunters and skirmishing between governors spawned a legal battle that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court and still influences us todayFilled with bitter quarrels reckless affairs treacherous betrayals relentless mercenaries and courageous detectives The Feud is the riveting story of two frontier families struggling for survival within the narrow confines of an unforgiving land It is a formative American tale and in it we see the reflection of our own family bonds and the lengths to which we might go in order to defend our honor our loyalties and our livelihood. Seller Inventory # DADAX031616707X