One of the biggest shocks of my young manhood came the first week I was in graduate school at Cornell. A fellow student, who hailed from Queens in New York City, asked me: “What kind of people kill a hundred of each other over a pig?”
He compounded my dismay by producing the New York Times report on the death of Cap Hatfield in August, 1930, which said that the feud lasted forty-eight years and cost more than one hundred lives. Of course the report said it all started over a pig.
This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales