Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud

Abstract

Beatty had horses and cattle, a hired man and a hired girl, a daughter, his first wife and a mighty thirst when he welcomed the Kiplings to Vermont. One by one in the years that followed, he lost them all but the last. He was well on his way through the first fortune he had inherited by the time Naulakha was completed. By then, the feud whose seed had been planted, no man knows how or when, already was sprouting.