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This little book is almost a masterpiece. Particularly in its early chapters (the later ones grow somewhat confused with the ramifications of the feud), it summons up the life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...
...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...
...pigs were his, and had Floyd Hatfield brought into court. The jury was evenly balanced -six McCoys, six Hatfields. But the judge was a Hatfield, and one of the McCoy jurors (married to a Hatfield) wavered. That did it: the Hatfields won the verdict; the hills got a feud that lasted two generations...
Even as the bandit feud grew, so did the sum of money that police recovered in their investigations. The figure now is close to the original $50,000 removed from the smoke-filled Coop at the beginning of the year...
More is involved than the warming over of an old feud between generals. Much of the present U.S. governmental and popular attitude toward China has been distilled out of Stilwell's venom...