"Some day, something will happen to you, and regardless of the outcome here on earth, you'll know what you felt and saw and heard. And you'll agree with me that something else [God] is there with you.
"Both Crismon and Dad were wounded that day."
Part oral history, part the author's musings and recollections of sessions with 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, Blood River Rising details a little-known feud that took place in Miller County, Missouri, in the 1920s. When the Crismons first move next door to the Thompsons--the family of the aforementioned Hadley Thompson--it seems as if their relationship will be the normal neighborly sort. But when tensions rise because of the presence of the Ku Klux Klan, life will be forever altered for the two families.
236 pages.
