The Hatfield–McCoy feud gripped the rugged borderlands of West Virginia and Kentucky for fourteen turbulent years. Published in 1930 and complete in its original George Annand-designed dustjacket, this volume remains an unusually bright, clean example, retaining its red cloth binding, crisp black stamping, and the publisher’s striking illustrated wrapper.

Across 325 pages, Spivak draws from oral accounts, legal records, and on-the-ground reportage to illuminate a world of frontier justice, mountain codes, and generational loyalty. What began with the ill-fated romance between Rosanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield spiraled into an epic of reprisals—an almost operatic cycle of devotion and defiance that threatened to ignite a regional civil war. His narrative captures not only the human cost of the conflict, but a raw, little-seen portrait of Appalachian life at the turn of the century: its hardships, hierarchies, silences, and fiercely guarded pride.

With a small bookseller’s label to the rear endpaper and only the faintest signs of age, this copy stands as a remarkable survivor—an artifact of American folklore rendered with journalistic clarity and dramatic force.