TCCDM Dig & Flip: The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys - The True Story - Dean King (2013)

The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys The True Story
by Dean King
(2013)
Softcover, 430 pages

NO SPOILERS:
     When we think of feuds, our minds quickly think of the Hatfields and the McCoys.  Television has been parodying the infamous feud for years.  Songs have been written.  But Holy Schnikes!  The conflict between the West Virginia Hatfields and the Kentucky McCoys' was a complex flustercluck of stealing, pay-backs, grudges, revenge, murders, maiming, Romeo-Juliet romances, shunning, and a whole lot of sneakery.  Both sides.  It involved close family members, cousins, uncs, friends, and neighbors.  All seemed to have a dog in the fight whether they wanted one or not.  It was blood for blood and don't ever go against the family.  

Surprisingly, both families had members in rather important positions of employment.  Sheriffs.  Deputies. Politicians. Church leaders.  Author Dean King brings it all out and gives us a well-written and fascinating look at two vengeful, enterprising, and loyal families.  Don't get me wrong.  Many from each family were good people, but the feud affected everybody.  It began near the end of the Civil War and the dark shadows lingered over the families like a slow-moving cold front for seasons on end.  The pages turned quickly while reading The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys - The True Story and held my interest throughout.  The added photographs were appreciated.  An eye-opener, for sure.

"Tuesday's Gone" - Lynyrd Skynyrd / "(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)" (1973) 

Good stuff.

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