The feud emerged at the tail end of the 19th century between two families, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, who lived on opposite sides of a stream called the Tug Fork.

By all indications the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system was on track in late 2024 to set a new ridership record. The multi-county trail system was hoping to surpass 95,000 permit sales last year, which ...

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 ...

While it is now the region’s primary tourism driver, the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system was at one time simply an ambitious idea of state lawmakers. The Southern West Virginia-based trail system has a ...