Todd Cook spent several years studying the Hatfield-McCoy feud, perusing books written from the Hatfield perspective, as well as the McCoy perspective. In his youth, his family was well-acquainted with a woman who worked as a missionary in the deep Kentucky hills back in the 1920 s and 1930 s. Cook was given a detailed account of Bethel Academy from a gentleman who now resides on the property where this frontier school once stood. Mr. Cook s previously published books include, Uncovered: The Lost Coins of Early America (2006) and the short historical thriller novella, Madame (2011). He has als...