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 ...

"When the American Civil War began in 1861, family patriarchs William 'Devil Anse' Hatfield of West Virginia and Randolph ...

The McCoy negroes were sent over to capture the pig, but they soon returned and told old Randolph McCoy, the head of the McCoy clan, that the Hatfield negroes had chased the animal into a ravine ...

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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Hatfield clan's 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 gunned down.

According to the Hatfield and McCoy Foundation, the feud began in the 1860s between the two groups, led by William Anderson Hatfield, known as “Devil Anse," and Randolph “Old Ranel” McCoy ...