Photographs of the real people in the Hatfield and the McCoy families, whose famously violent 19th century feud has shaped perceptions of Appalachian life. The feud between the Hatfields and ...

It may have been all three or even something else lost to time. But whatever started the Hatfield and McCoy feud was enough to make it one of the most infamous clashes in U.S. history. The feud ...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Each year thousands of people fire up their ATV’s and ride along the Hatfield-McCoy trail system, ...

The names of the speakers are instantly recognizable because of the decades-long rift between the Hatfields and the McCoys; ...

welch — While the Feb. 15 flood didn’t force any trail closures, the deluge of water did cause damage to drainage systems along the Hatfield-McCoy system in Southern West Virginia. In fact ...

They had their moments, but the clans that took the prize for fighting and grudge-holding were the Hatfields and McCoys. My granddad told me his family had friends on both sides of the famous feud.

In 1878, Randall accused a relative of Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield of stealing one of the McCoys’ hogs. Randall took the more affluent Hatfields to court in Kentucky but lost.