One of the chapters in Texas history that was written, not with the 
ink and pen, but with the lead of the Winchester rifle and the slugs 
of a double-barreled shotgun. As a result, that particular period, the 
decade of the 1870s, might well be termed the "bloody years."

    Thus C.L. Douglas begins the introduction to his now-classic 
Famous Texas Feuds, first published in 1936. In this piece, 
Douglas graphically tells the blood-stained story of the most 
important of the violent feuds that ravaged a number of Texas 
counties during the nineteenth century.

    Included in the book are the East Texas Conflict between the old 
settlers and the new settlers, otherwise known as the Regulators and 
the Moderators; the Taylor-Sutton controversy, which began in the 
early 1870s as a family quarrel over cattle and then fanned out until it 
included every family in DeWitt County; and the Elizario Salt War of 
West Texas. Also covered in the work are the Horrell-Higgins Affair 
of Lampasas County, the Mason County War, and the Jaybirds and 
the Woodpeckers clash in Richmond County.

    The New York Times stated of an earlier edition of Famous Texas 
Feuds that "Mr. Douglas tells all these tales in admirable style. He 
has good literary taste, a sense of drama and that skill in narration 
that makes due use of restraint but brings out the inherent human 
interest of the tale. And he gives enduring historical value to his 
book by his exposition of the psychological, racial, social, 
economic and other causes, deeply embedded in human nature, 
that were the most important of the forces precipitating these 
bloody feuds."

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What people are saying about this book

"Douglas' book has become a classic for its details of events that 
were a part of the state's best-known feuds."—BookBeat

"[Douglas's] ornate and leisurely prose is a pleasure."—Victoria
Advocate


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