Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky untangles the threads of conflicting testimony to present true, engrossing accounts of six of the most notorious, long-running feuds-those in Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties.

Each of these feuds arose from distinctive circumstances, but all shared...