Showing Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance by Lisa Alther

Blood Feud America's most notorious feud began in 1865 with the murder of Asa McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Hatfield relative who hated that McCoy had fought for the Union. But Southern grudges run long and deep, and a decade later tempers flared again, this time over stolen hogs. That theft triggered years of bloody violence and retribution that led to a Supreme Court ruling and Kentucky's last public hangin Full description