Crossword-Solution: TATUMS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Going to Tatums, I guess." "What for?" "Tatums is the life-saving station nearest where the vessel is ashore.

One rendition had it that the firm of Stackpole Brothers sued the two Tatums--Harve and Jess--for an account long overdue, and won judgment in the courts, but won with it the murderous enmity of the defendant pair.

The incontrovertible part was that things came to a decisive pass on a July day in the late '80's when the two Tatums sent word to the two Stackpoles that at or about six o'clock of that evening they would come down the side road from their place a mile away to Stackpole Brothers' gristmill above the big riffle in Cache Creek prepared to fight it out man to man.

Into the mill these newcomers carried the two Tatums, Jess being stone-dead and Harve still senseless, with a leg dangling where the bones were snapped below the knee, and a great cut in his scalp; and they laid the two of them side by side on the floor in the gritty dust of the meal tailings and the flour grindings.

This one rather thought Stackpole feared punitive reprisals under cover of night by vengeful kinsmen of the Tatums, they being, root and branch, sprout and limb, a belligerent and an ill-conditioned breed.