The Hatfield-McCoy feud may have started with a mysterious wartime murder. But it deepened because of a razorback hog. In 1878 — 13 years after Asa’s death — his brother Randolph McCoy ...

“Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Hatfield clan New Year’s attack on Randolph McCoy’s cabin marked a turning point in America’s most famous feud — the homestead was set ablaze, and two McCoys were ...

A pig. Well, that’s how one of the stories goes, anyway. In 1878, Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing one of his hogs. The matter went to trial, with the star testimony coming from ...

On Election Day 1882 in Pike County, after a good bit of drinking, which typically accompanied voting at the time in mountainous Eastern Kentucky, brothers Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy ...

Scholars believe the feud began in 1878 on the Kentucky side of the isolated Tug Valley, when Randolph McCoy accused a Hatfield of stealing his hog. The accusation was likely a manifestation of ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- The real McCoys have given up hope of getting this eastern Kentucky town to put up a statue honoring the family patriarch who feuded and fought with the Hatfields in the late 1800s.

The leader of the dig says they have pinpointed the place where Randolph McCoy’s home was set ablaze in the woods of eastern Kentucky during a murderous New Year’s attack by the Hatfield clan.

But Asa Harmon McCoy ran off to join the Union Army. A few nights after he returned home in 1865 he was found murdered in a cave. Hatfields were suspected. In 1873, Floyd Hatfield and Randolph ...