TEXT: Our nation is built upon a history of battles, fought over honor, family and power. These bloody and iconic chapters, define what it truly means to be an American. These are Blood Feuds. On the dangerous frontier of Arizona, a brutal range war breaks out that's said to be the deadliest family feud in U.S. history, the Pleasant Valley war. Hutton: This was a vendetta between families. It really was a blood feud. Narrator: It's a battle to the death as two ranching clans clash for control over the land and their right to manifest destiny. The Tewksbury brothers are frontiersmen who will stop at nothing to defend their territory. Ed would stand his ground, and he would not back down. Narrator: The Graham brothers are grifters, prepared to kill any man who stands in their way. Hutton: The Graham boys, they're armed to the teeth and are determined to get revenge. Who did this to you? Who shot you, Billy? Narrator: Acts of betrayal, unspeakable violence... Those murdering dogs!... and ignite a feud so vicious the pages of American Frontier history will be bathed in blood. There's no story in all of Western history as violent. There were beheadings. Lynchings. This indiscriminate slaughter just seemed medieval. There's no turning back now. Meet you in hell, Ed. [Woman screams] I'm Ed Tewksbury. My family and I pioneered Pleasant Valley. I live by an honorable code. Tom Graham, he has no code. I'm gonna get you. You should be looking over your shoulder the rest of your life. I'm Tom Graham. My brother and I, we settled in the valley. It was Ed Tewksbury who brought us here. And let me tell you this... He is not a man of honor. If you don't want to die right now, go home, Tom. It's a blood feud. It's about vengeance. Narrator: The feud between Ed Tewksbury and Tom Graham takes root in the late 1870s on the un
SUMMARY:
Former friendships sour as two ranching families become embroiled in an epic battle in the dangerous frontier of Arizona.