Best Price Biography - Hatfields and McCoys: An American Feud

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Biography - Hatfields and McCoys: An American Feud Overview

It lasted over a decade and claimed a dozen lives. But the feud that has been immortalized in folklore wasn't nearly as bad as many others it just got more press. The Hatfields and McCoys lived along the Tug Fork River on the Kentucky-West Virginia border in the late 1800s. According to most, their feud began when Floyd Hatfield took a hog from Randolph McCoy in 1878. By the time everything was settled 11 years later a dozen folks were dead and the national press had turned the feud into front-page news. In this definitive BIOGRAPHY historians and descendants of feud members help separate legend from reality as both sides are presented. Discover the forbidden romance that flamed the fires, relive the fatal encounters, and follow contemporary accounts. Journey to the rugged Appalachians for the real story of the most famous feud in American history.

Best Price Kindred Spirits: Four Hundred Years of an American Family

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Kindred Spirits: Four Hundred Years of an American Family Overview

Kindred Spirits is an engaging memoir about family and an urgent quest for identity—uncovering the deep ancestral history of one ordinary-seeming American family whose past is revealed with unprecedented sweep, detail, and clarity.

Bellamy's genealogical odyssey will be a revelation to anyone interested in his or her own family story or to anyone who has ever wondered what it would mean to meet one’s ancestors. Scientific advances such as DNA testing and recent opportunities via internet research have given genealogy and family history new credibility that has made it the second most popular subject area on the internet after pornography—and an obsession with baby-boomers.

In describing the phenomenon of the new genealogy, and employing its methods, Bellamy tells a captivating story about the struggles of the earliest European pioneers to gain a foothold in the New World and combines this story with a personal narrative of unusual candor and interest.

This is a book about a quest—set off by the death of a beloved mother—for the facts about her family’s past and that of her deceased husband. What it uncovers is the deep ancestral history of one ordinary-seeming American family whose past is revealed with unprecedented sweep, detail, and clarity. The son who spends his bereaved hours searching for clues in court houses, libraries, cemeteries, and on the internet, finds more than he ever bargained for—a past that no one in the family ever knew before or ever could have known without the resources now available for unearthing the past.

Bellamy’s genealogical odyssey will be a revelation to anyone interested in his or her own family story and to anyone who has ever wondered what it would mean to meet one’s ancestors close up. Kindred Spirits tells a captivating story about the struggles of the earliest European colonists to gain a foothold in the New World and combines this story with a personal narrative of unusual candor and interest.

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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Overview

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.

A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.

American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.

Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.