The Hatfield and McCoy Feud
This seems to be all the rage at the moment. The History channel just finished a 3 night mini series on the subject, a new movie called Bad Blood comes to theaters next month and a few more books have recently been written and released. Staying true to how I generally work when writing my blogs I looked beyond the movies, we all know they are not completely accurate, as well as try to work my through all the other works to come to an un-bias reality. Considering this feud likely started in the 1860's and spanned several years sometimes makes it difficult to sort through. This story rings true with the fact that both sides have a story and that the truth is somewhere in the middle so I will try to go with what seems to have been confirmed, for the most part, and state what is uncertain when I can. Seeing as this feud not only ended nearly 120 years ago, it spanned nearly 50 years. What we do know is that the McCoy family lived on the Kentucky side o...