The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The 1868 Texas Conflict That Turned One Family Grudge Into One of the Wildest Revenge Wars of the Post-Civil War West
The blood feud that would tear DeWitt County, Texas, apart for nearly a decade did not begin with a formal declaration of war, but with a hail of gunfire on a cold Christmas Eve in the now-vanished town of Clinton. When the smoke cleared in 1868, Buck Taylor and his cousin Richard Chisum lay dead … Read more