Crossword-Solution: FEUDISTS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But the Kid knew that he was of the Coralitos outfit from Hidalgo; and that the punchers from that ranch were more relentless and vengeful than Kentucky feudists when wrong or harm was done to one of them.

Indeed, that time, Hale believed, was not far away, for Election Day was at hand, and always on that day the feudists came to the Gap in a search for trouble.

Many illiterate feudists on each side remembered the directing and exposed figure of Samson South seen through eddies of gun smoke, and believed him immune from death.

They were moon-shiners, feudists, hilly-billies, small farmers and basket-makers, men of lean and saturnine appearance, some of them horse thieves, pirates of the forest who cared little for the laws of God or man and fought as naturally as they breathed.

They are sensitive because they are observant and realize they have been criticized and misunderstood--misclassed as a rare race of "moonshiners" and "feudists." Quickly and clearly they see through any veneer of democracy the stranger may assume, to conceal an assumption of superiority.