The Feud : The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story (Hardcover)

from susanahern

Dean King's latest book is a thoroughly researched history of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The book has merit in that it paints a vivid picture of late 19th century life along the West Virginia/Kentucky border, and the hatred that festered between the two families. The book, however, goes far beyond ...

from Schmerguls

The subject matter of the book is of high interest, but , while the author has done much research, the book does not do a good job to enable the casual reader to know who is who, often referring to people by nicknames. The family trees are not as helpful as they could be. As far as blame goes eac...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

I won this book from Goodreads Book Giveaway. I love history and the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys which many books have been written. Mr King does a great service to the story of these two feuding families by clarifying and clearing up many of the stories and legends that surround this i...

from drmaf

Genuinely exciting, fast-moving, but also sad and tragic story of two rival clans who battled each other across the Tug Fork River between Kentucky and West Virginia for 3 decades of the late 19th century. If you can make sense of the torrent of names, many of them very similar, that will be hurl...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

I won this book from Goodreads Book Giveaway. I love history and the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys which many books have been written. Mr King does a great service to the story of these two feuding families by clarifying and clearing up many of the stories and legends that surround this i...