Unsurprisingly, the Hatfield clan won the day. The case hinged on the witness testimony of a man named Bill Staton, a McCoy relative who was married to a Hatfield, who backed up Floyd Hatfield’s ...

The next day, as the three young men were escorted to Pikeville, Kentucky, for arraignment, the Hatfield clan intercepted ...

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 ...