The series focuses on the fierce rivalry between the Hatfield and McCoy families, a conflict that began during the Civil War and extended into the Reconstruction era. The story of the Hatfields ...

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 ...

A Union soldier on his way home runs afoul of Jim Vance and his nephew Ellison Hatfield. Confederate sympathizers, they're furious with the idea of one of their neighbors fighting for the Union.

Randolph McCoy, the patriarch of the McCoy family of northern Kentucky, claimed that Floyd Hatfield had stolen his pig. The ...

During a recent visit to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, I checked out Dolly Parton's Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud show. I'd been to her nearby Dollywood theme park many times while in the area — and ...