King, Dean

This readable, engrossing book is for those with an interest in the events leading up to, during, and after the feud. Less biased than Lisa Alther's Blood Feud, it also breaks some ground that Otis K. Rice couldn't when he wrote The Hatfields and McCoys 30 years ago. Highly recommended, especially for those whose interest in the topic has been piqued by the recent TV series.

King here takes a big leap from the subject of his best-selling Skeletons of the Zahara, about 12 early 1800s American sailors dragged into slavery and then trapped in the Sahara after a shipwreck...