Days of Darkness

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. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorious feuds to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, and questions commonly held beliefs about long-ru