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 ...
“Papaw’s distant cousin—also Jim Vance—married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and ...
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 ...