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The Sutton-Taylor Feud - The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas (Paperback)
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The Sutton-Taylor Feud - The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas (Paperback)
Series: A.C. Greene Series
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The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding
counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud
continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with
a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the
Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer and covered more ground than
any other. William E. Sutton was the only Sutton involved, but he
had many friends to wage warfare against the large Taylor family.
The causes are still shrouded in mystery and legend, as both sides
argued they were just and right. In April 1868 Charles Taylor and
James Sharp were shot down in Bastrop County, alleged horse thieves
attempting to escape. During this period many men were killed
""while attempting to escape."" The killing on Christmas Eve 1868
of Buck Taylor and Dick Chisholm was perhaps the final spark that
turned hard feelings into fighting with bullets and knives. William
Sutton was involved in both killings. ""Who sheds a Taylor's blood,
by a Taylor's hand must fall"" became a fact of life in South
Texas. Violent acts between the two groups now followed. The
military reacted against the killing of two of their soldiers in
Mason County by Taylors. The State Police committed acts that were
not condoned by their superiors in Austin. Mobs formed in Comanche
County in retaliation for John Wesley Hardin's killing of a Brown
County deputy sheriff. One mob ""liberated"" three prisoners from
the DeWitt County jail, thoughtfully hanging them close to the
cemetery for the convenience of their relatives. An ambush party
killed James Cox, slashing his throat from ear to ear-as if the
buckshot in him was not sufficient. A doctor and his son were
called from their home and brutally shot down. Texas Rangers
attempted to quell the violence, but when they were called away,
the killing began again. In this definitive study of the
Sutton-Taylor Feud, Chuck Parsons demonstrates that the violence
between the two sides was in the tradition of the family blood
feud, similar to so many other nineteenth-century American feuds.
His study is well augmented with numerous illustrations and
appendices detailing the feudists, their attempts at treaties, and
their victims.
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