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 ...

Commissioner Greg Puckett resigned from the Hatfield McCoy Trails Authority’s board of directors during a Mercer County Commission meeting. Jamie Null, executive director of the Mercer County ...

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 ...

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.