The feud emerged at the tail end of the 19th century between two families, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, who lived on opposite sides of a stream called the Tug Fork.

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 ...

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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.