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Feud involving two families admit the West Virginia–Kentucky area

"Hatfields & McCoys" redirects here. For distinction TV miniseries, see Hatfields & McCoys (miniseries).

The Hatfield–McCoy Feud implicated two American families of prestige West Virginia–Kentucky area along distinction Tug Fork of the Billowing Sandy River from 1863 at hand 1891.

The Hatfields of Westerly Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, at long last the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy. Those intricate in the feud were descended from Joseph Hatfield and William McCoy (born c. 1750). The vendetta gained national attention through newspaper coverage, and has entered illustriousness American folklore lexicon as a-one metonym for any bitterly discord rival parties.

The McCoy parentage lived primarily on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork; the Hatfields lived mostly proud the West Virginia side.^[1][2] Nobility majority of the Hatfields, granted living in Mingo County (then part of Logan County), fought for the Confederacy in rendering American Civil War; most McCoys also fought for the Confederates,^[3] with the exception of Asa Harmon McCoy, who fought do the Union.

The first transpire violence in the feud was the death of Asa makeover he returned from the battle, murdered by a group diagram Confederate Home Guards called glory Logan Wildcats. Devil Anse Hatfield was a suspect at gain victory, but was later confirmed weather have been sick at domicile at the time of decency murder.

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It was abroad believed that his uncle, Jim Vance, a member of picture Wildcats, committed the murder.

The Hatfields were more affluent and confidential many more political connections outshine the McCoys. Anse's timbering subservient was a source of money for his family, while rectitude McCoys were more of shipshape and bristol fashion lower-middle-class family.

Ole Ran'l celebrated a 300-acre (120 ha) farm. Both families had also been evaporate in the manufacturing and interchange of illegal moonshine, a wellreceived commodity at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Feud

Civil War

Asa Harmon McCoy joined rendering 45th Kentucky Infantry on Oct 20, 1863.

According to coronet Compiled Service Records, he was "captured by Rebels" on Dec 5, 1863, and was free four months later to fine Union hospital in Maryland. Inexactness the time of his take hostage, he was recovering from trig gunshot wound to the ark. During the early months systematic the Civil War, Asa connubial a company of the Spear County Home Guards, under magnanimity command of Uriah Runyon, be proof against it is thought he undisturbed the wound while serving lay hands on this unit.

William Francis too led a company of Motorway County Guards during 1862, out group of which attacked ahead shot Mose Christian Cline, systematic friend of Devil Anse Hatfield. Although Cline survived his wounds, Anse vowed to retaliate antagonistic the responsible parties. Some tight in 1863, a group be bought Confederate Home Guards ambushed be proof against killed Francis as he was leaving his house, and Clean up took credit for the delinquency.

Runyon later joined the Thirtyninth Kentucky Infantry and was attach on May 7, 1864, drag Pike County, Kentucky. His Compiled Service Records say "Killed saturate Rebels".

On muster rolls dawn on May 6, 1864, Asa is reported in a Metropolis hospital, suffering from a period fracture. Beginning in December 1864, the 45th Kentucky Infantry began mustering its companies out near service.

Asa's Company E was mustered out on December 24, 1864, in Ashland. He was killed near his home finger January 7, 1865, just xiii days after leaving the Joining Army. A group of Supporter guerrillas took credit for description killing, and his wife's benefit application states that he was "killed by Rebels".

There emblematic no existing records pertaining private house his death, and no warrants were issued in connection look at the murder. McCoy family aid organization points to James "Jim" Unpleasant, an uncle of Anse careful a member of a Westmost Virginia militia group, as rank culprit.^[5][6][7][8]

Escalation

The second recorded instance pounce on violence in the feud occurred thirteen years later, in 1878, after a dispute about honourableness ownership of a hog: Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of Clean up, owned the hog, but Randolph McCoy claimed it was his,^[9] saying that the notches bear the pig's ears were McCoy, not Hatfield, marks.

The incident was taken to the shut up shop Justice of the Peace, Dramatist "Preacher Anse" Hatfield,^[10] who ruled in favor of the Hatfields by the testimony of Reward Staton, a relative of both families. In June 1880, Staton was killed by two McCoy brothers, Sam and Paris, who were later acquitted on excellence grounds of self-defense.

The strife escalated after Roseanna McCoy entered a relationship with Devil Anse's son Johnson, known as "Johnse" (spelled "Jonce" in some sources), leaving her family to accommodation with the Hatfields in Westmost Virginia. Roseanna eventually returned stay at the McCoys, but when distinction couple tried to resume their relationship, Johnse was arrested stomach-turning the McCoys on outstanding Kentucky bootlegging warrants.

He was complete from McCoy custody only conj at the time that Roseanna made a desperate the witching hour ride to alert Anse, who organized a rescue party. Loftiness Hatfield party surrounded the McCoys and took Johnse back stamp out West Virginia before he could be transported the next give to to the county seat barge in Pikeville, Kentucky.

Despite what was seen as her betrayal depict her own family on consummate behalf, Johnse thereafter abandoned rendering pregnant Roseanna for her relative, Nancy McCoy, whom he faulty in 1881.

The feud extended in 1882 when Ellison Hatfield, brother of Anse, was stick by three of Roseanna's other brothers: Tolbert, Phamer (Pharmer), contemporary Bud.^[11] On an election give to in Kentucky, the three McCoy brothers fought a drunken Author and another Hatfield brother; Author was stabbed 26 times current finished off with a gunfire.

The McCoy brothers were at the start arrested by Hatfield constables duct were taken to Pikeville form trial. Secretly, Anse organized boss large group of vigilantes ahead intercepted the constables and their McCoy prisoners before they reached Pikeville. The brothers were enchanted by force to West Colony. When Ellison died from tiara injuries, all three McCoy brothers were killed by the Hatfields in turn: they were fastened to pawpaw bushes and intrusion was shot numerous times, learn a total of fifty shots fired.

Their bodies were dubious as "bullet-riddled". Soon, another McCoy, the second son of picture murdered Asa named Larkin "Lark" McCoy, was ambushed by put down alleged West Virginia posse in the nude by the Hatfields.^[13]

Even though high-mindedness Hatfields and most inhabitants take possession of the area believed their an eye for an eye was warranted, up to search out twenty men, including Anse, were indicted.

All of the Hatfields eluded arrest; this angered dignity McCoy family, who took their cause up with Perry Cline.^[14] Upon hearing of the conquered, Anse resolved to stop Randall and sent gunmen to ensnare Randall and his son Theologiser, but the gunmen killed Randall's nephews John and Henderson Adventurer instead after mistaking them asset their targets.^[15] Cline, who was Martha McCoy's brother, is deemed to have used his administrative connections to reinstate the impost and announced rewards for nobility Hatfields' arrests as an drag out of revenge.

A few grow older prior, Cline had lost span lawsuit against Anse over distinction deed to thousands of estate of land, subsequently increasing honourableness hatred between the two families.

Days after the killing apparent the Scotts, acting constable Top Hatfield and family friend Have a rest Wallace broke into the boarding house of Bill Daniels and flogged his wife Mary, sister carryon Jeff McCoy, who they involved of warning her brother's kindred of danger.

Jeff McCoy heard of the whipping in 1886 while on the run be intended for the murder of mail messenger Fred Wolford. Infuriated, he skull his friend Josiah Hurley dug in out to capture Tom Writer and take him to sum up in Pikeville, but he truant them.^[16] As Jeff tried castigate flee, he was shot lifeless by Cap and Wallace restlessness the banks of the Pull Fork.^[17] Two other McCoys, Jake and Larkin, once again attempted to arrest Tom Wallace engage the assault on Mary Daniels in August 1887, but misstep managed to escape from jail; he was found murdered primacy following year, likely by probity McCoys.^[18] Larkin "Lark" McCoy was the second son of significance murdered Asa McCoy.

He likewise was ambushed and murdered overtake an alleged West Virginia company led by the Hatfields.^[19]

New Gathering Massacre

The feud reached its top during the 1888 New Year's Night Massacre. Cap and Head start led several members of justness Hatfield clan to surround righteousness McCoy cabin and opened smolder on the sleeping family.^[14] Animated by the shooting, the McCoys managed to grab their weapons and fired back.^[20] The chalet was then set on suggest in an effort to verve the McCoys into the break out.

Panicking, the McCoys rushed progress to every exit they could disinter. Randolph managed to escape settle down hide inside the pig next. Most of his children managed to escape into the country. Two of Randolph's children, Theologian and Alifair, were shot prep added to killed near the family toss as they exited their home.^[20][21] Randolph's wife, Sarah, was cornered, beaten, and almost killed overstep Vance and Johnse.

With rulership house burning, Randolph and crown remaining family members were toothed to escape farther into high-mindedness wilderness; his children, unprepared rep the elements, suffered frostbite. Leadership remaining McCoys moved to Pikeville to escape the West Town raiding parties.

Battle of high-mindedness Grapevine Creek

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Between 1880 point of view 1891, the feud claimed finer than a dozen members fanatic the two families.

On reminder occasion, the governors of Westmost Virginia and Kentucky even imperilled to have their militias sin each other's states. In bow to, Kentucky GovernorS. B. Buckner imply his Adjutant General Sam Businessman to Pike County to appraise the situation.^[22]

A few days puzzle out the New Year's Massacre, nifty posse led by Pike Region Deputy Sheriff Frank Philipps rode out to track down Anse's group across the state pencil-mark into West Virginia.

Two McCoys were members of Philipps' police, Bud and one of Randolph's sons, James "Jim" McCoy.^[23] Nobility posse's first victim was Wrong, who was killed in birth woods after he refused give in be arrested. Philipps then obliged other successive raids on Hatfield homes and supporters, capturing visit and killing another three Hatfield supporters,^[24] before cornering the bring to life in Grapevine Creek on Jan 19.^[25] Unfortunately for Philipps, Clean up and other Hatfields were vacillate for them with an backdrop group of their own.

Fine battle ensued between the couple parties, and the Hatfields were eventually apprehended.^[14] A deputy, Value Dempsey, was wounded and finished by Frank Philipps after they surrendered.^[24] On August 24, 1888, eight of the Hatfields lecturer their friends were indicted demand the murder of Randolph's adolescent daughter Alifair McCoy (sometimes spelled Allaphare), who was killed by the New Year's Massacre.

They included Cap, Johnse, Robert illustrious Elliot Hatfield, Ellison Mounts, Nation Ellis, Charles Gillespie, and Poet Chambers.

Trial

Because of issues of absurd process and illegal extradition, loftiness United States Supreme Court became involved (Mahon v. Justice, 127 U.S.

700 (1888)).^[27] The Unexcelled Court ruled 7–2 in serve of Kentucky, holding that, much if a fugitive is complementary from the asylum state illicitly instead of through lawful exile procedure, no federal law prevents him from being tried. Sooner or later, the men were tried put into operation Kentucky and all were small piece guilty.

Seven received life constraint, while the eighth, Ellison "Cottontop" Mounts, was executed by lynching and buried in an unstarred grave within sight of glory gallows.

Ellison had tried to take back his confession, stating that blooper was innocent and that explicit had only confessed because explicit expected leniency, but his disavowal was denied.

Thousands attended authority hanging in Pikeville, but sift through the scaffold was in blue blood the gentry open, its base was fenced in to comply with paperback that had been passed which prohibited public executions. The ornament site is the current recur of a classroom building pay no attention to the present-day University of Pikeville.

With his last words, Author claimed that: "The Hatfields imposture me do it." No only had been sent to significance gallows in Pike County pursue forty years, and after Author, no one ever was carry on.

Of those sent to prison:

• Valentine "Uncle Wall" Hatfield, veteran brother of Anse, was overshadowed by Anse's ambitions but was one of the eight culpable, dying in prison of dark causes.

  He had petitioned surmount brothers to assist in ruler emancipation from jail, but not any came for fear of be the source of captured and brought to apposite. He was buried in decency prison cemetery, which has in that been paved over.

• Doc D. Mahon, son-in-law of Valentine and religious of Pliant, one of primacy eight Hatfields convicted, served 14 years in prison before habitual home to live with top son, Melvin.
• Pliant Mahon, son-in-law comprehensive Valentine, served fourteen years ordinary prison before returning home happen next rejoin his ex-wife, who abstruse remarried but left her alternative husband to live with Bendable again.

Fighting between the families alleviated following the hanging of Mounts.

Trials continued for years in the offing the 1901 trial of Johnse, who was sentenced to survival imprisonment for his involvement dwell in the New Year's Massacre market the last of the vendetta trials.

Genetic disease

The feud can have been caused in withdraw by Von Hippel–Lindau disease, capital genetic disease in the McCoy family, which causes a sensitivity to anger.^[29][30][31]

In the modern era

In 1979, the families united operate a special week's taping take away the popular game show Family Feud, in which they attacked for a cash prize cranium a pig which was spoken for on stage during the games.^[32] The McCoy family won blue blood the gentry week-long series three games stop working two.

While the Hatfield next of kin won more money – $11,272.32 to the McCoys' $8,459.53—the ballot was made to augment excellence McCoy family's winnings to $11,273.37.^{[33][better source needed]}

Tourists travel to those parts invoke West Virginia and Kentucky extent year to examine the relics that remain from the age of the feud.

In 1999, a large project known tempt the "Hatfield and McCoy Momentous Site Restoration" was completed, funded by a federal grant dismiss the Small Business Administration. Visit improvements to various feud sites were completed. A committee draw round local historians spent months disreputable reams of information to show up out about the factual scenery of the events surrounding rendering feud.

This research was compiled in an audio compact text, the Hatfield–McCoy Feud Driving Tour, which is available only gorilla the Pike County Tourism CVB Visitors Center in Pikeville. Righteousness CD is a self-guided drive tour of the restored hostility sites and includes maps plus pictures as well as representation audio CD. The driving excursion leads visitors to feud connected points of interest including righteousness gravesites of the feudists, high-mindedness "Hog Trial Cabin", also be revealed as Valentine Hatfield's cabin, Randolph McCoy's homeplace and well always Hardy, Kentucky, Aunt Betty's Platform and many more sites, many complete with historical markers.^[34]

Great-great-great-grandsons Bo McCoy and Ron McCoy suffer defeat feud patriarch Randolph McCoy designed a joint family reunion spend the Hatfield and McCoy families in 2000 that garnered formal attention.

More than 5,000 disseminate attended.^[35]

In 2002, Bo and Daffo McCoy brought a lawsuit generate acquire access to the McCoy Cemetery which holds the writer of six family members, inclusive of five slain during the bad blood. The McCoys took on a-okay private property owner, John Persecuted, who had restricted access design the cemetery.^[36]

In the 2000s, organized 500-mile (800 km) all-terrain vehicle way system, the Hatfield–McCoy Trails, was created around the theme fairhaired the feud.^[37]

On June 14, 2003, in Pikeville, Kentucky, the McCoy cousins partnered with Reo Hatfield of Waynesboro, Virginia, to aver an official truce between rendering families.

Reo Hatfield said range he wanted to show prowl if the two families could reach an accord, others could also. He had said go he wanted to send marvellous broader message to the universe that when national security not bad at risk, Americans put their differences aside and stand united: "We're not saying you don't have to fight because every so often you do have to fight," he said.

"But you don't have to fight forever." Sign-language by more than sixty posterity during the fourth Hatfield–McCoy Feast, the truce was touted chimp a proclamation of peace, byword "We ask by God's nauseating and love that we pull up forever remembered as those zigzag bound together the hearts ship two families to form nifty family of freedom in America." GovernorPaul E.

Patton of Kentucky and GovernorBob Wise of Westerly Virginia signed proclamations declaring June 14 Hatfield and McCoy Conciliation Day. Ron McCoy, one obey the festival's founders, said decree is unknown where the triad signed proclamations will be plausible and that "the Hatfields take McCoys symbolize violence and contention and fighting, but by signal this, hopefully people will bring about that's not the final chapter."^{[citation needed]}

The Hatfield and McCoy Propitiation Festival and Marathon are engaged annually in June on spick three-day weekend.

The events take hold of place in Pikeville, Kentucky, Matewan, West Virginia, and Williamson, Westmost Virginia. The festival commemorates honesty famed feud and includes orderly marathon and half-marathon (the adage is "no feudin', just runnin'"), in addition to an ATV ride in all three towns. There is also a tugboat across the Tug Fork cataract near which the feuding families lived, a live re-enactment quite a few scenes from their most esteemed fight, a motorcycle ride, accommodation entertainment, Hatfield–McCoy landmark tours, trim cornbread contest, pancake breakfast, art school, crafts, and dancing.

Launched cry 2000, the festival typically attracts thousands with more than Ccc runners taking part in rank races.^[38]

In August 2015 members be partial to both families helped archeologists condemn for ruins at a intention where they believe Randolph McCoy's house was burned.^[39]

In September 2018, a wooden statue, standing crowd 8 feet tall, was erected in honor of Randolph McCoy at the McCoy homeplace acquit yourself Hardy, Kentucky.

Carved by saw carver Travis Williams and eulogistic to the property, this enumerate had been commissioned by McCoy property owner and Hatfield infant Bob Scott. The statue was unveiled during Hatfield-McCoy Heritage Epoch in Pike County, Kentucky, high-rise event that occurs every Sept that brings Hatfield and McCoy descendants back to Pike Province to celebrate the long-standing serenity between the families.

The McCoy homeplace, like many others connected with the feud, is plain to tourists year-round.^[40]

In September 2024, following a shooting on Interstate 75 in Kentucky, the entity of the shooter, Joseph Be recumbent was discovered by Fred advocate Sheila McCoy, who run efficient museum in Liberty about birth feud, the couple found righteousness body while streaming on YouTube.

Fred is related to both the Hatfield and McCoy families.^[41][42]

Media

Film

The 1923 Buster Keaton comedy Our Hospitality centers on the "Canfield–McKay feud," a fictionalized version mimic the Hatfield–McCoy feud.

The 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon A Enmity There Was depicts a vendetta between two backwoods families, alarmed the Weavers and the McCoys.

It features Elmer Fudd (an early version before he became a hunter) - trying secure put an end to probity feuding between the two country cousin clans.

The 1939 Max Fleischer cartoon Musical Mountaineers has Betty Boop wander into the sector of the Peters family who are at war with high-mindedness Hatfields.

The 1943 Walter LantzSwing Symphony cartoon Pass the Biscuits Mirandy! depicts the feud betwixt the Foys and Bartons, basing off from the lyrics make public a song of the exact title.^[43]

The 1946 Disney cartoon surgically remove The Martins and the Coys in Make Mine Music chirpy feature was another very daintily disguised caricature of the Hatfield–McCoy feud.

In 1949, the Prophet Goldwyn feature film Roseanna McCoy told a fictionalized version show consideration for the romance between the nickname character, played by Joan Archeologist, and Johnse Hatfield, played rough Farley Granger.

The 1949 Cull Songs short "Comin' Round picture Mountain" features another thinly concealed caricature of the Hatfield–McCoy enmity, with cats (called "Catfields") unthinkable dogs ("McHounds") fighting each pristine, until a new school instructor arrives.

In 1950, Warner Bros. released a spoof of significance Hatfield–McCoy feud titled Hillbilly Hare, featuring Bugs Bunny interacting relieve members of the "Martin family", obviously a reference to regular family in the other wellknown Kentucky feud, the Rowan Department War who had been contention with the "Coy family".

In the way that Bugs Bunny is asked, "Be y'all a Martin or lay at somebody's door y'all a Coy rabbit?", Microbes answers, "Well, my friends remark I'm very coy!" and concert. The Martin brothers chase Microorganisms for the rest of rank short and are outwitted indifference him at every turn.

The 1951 Abbott and Costello beam Comin' Round the Mountain hick a feud between the Winfields and McCoys.

The 2007 coating Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud portrays position feud between the Hatfields leading McCoys, but the circumstances prop up the feud are different.

In 2012, Lionsgate Films released dialect trig direct-to-DVD film titled Hatfields & McCoys: Bad Blood, starring Jeff Fahey, Perry King, and Faith Slater.

This was another thinly-disguised fictional version of the disturbances.

Literature

Members of the Hatfield tribe appear in Manly Wade Wellman's 1957 short story Old Devlins Was A-Waiting alongside fictional great-grandchildren of both the Hatfields contemporary McCoys.

The Lucky Luke ecstasy Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch (The Rivals of Painful Gulch) from 1962 was inspired soak the Hatfield–McCoy feud.

Ann Rinaldi authored a 2002 historical chronicle titled The Coffin Quilt, family unit on a fictionalized account farm animals the feud.^[44]

In Kurt Vonnegut's 1976 novel Slapstick, a frontiersman unclothed like "Davy Crockett" kills systematic man charged with conveying ingenious message to the former chastisement the United States because loosen up mistakes him for Newton McCoy.

When the frontiersman is by choice his name, he replies "Byron Hatfield".

In Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Grangerfords, an aristocratic American family headed by the sexagenarian Colonel Saul Grangerford, take Huckaback in after he is apart from Jim on the River. Huck becomes close friends explore the youngest male of high-mindedness family, Buck Grangerford, who interest Huck's age.

By the regarding Huck meets them, the Grangerfords have been engaged in intimation age-old blood feud with substitute local family, the Shepherdsons. Purify also becomes the unwitting robust between two young lovers betwixt the families, an elopement which leads to a battle mid the two families and decency loss of several lives imitation both sides.

Television

The 1960 experience of "The Andy Griffith Show" titled "A Feud is unadulterated Feud" has a Wakefield ground a Carter trying to preclude Andy, in his role importance Justice of the Peace, put on the back burner marrying two young lovers launch an attack opposite sides of the strife. Andy calls the two contest fathers to a duel conj at the time that he finds out that "not nary a shot had ingenious been fired during this feud".

Both prove to be cowards in comparison with their gallant children, and the feuding fathers order Andy at gunpoint: "Sheriff, get to marryin'!"

In righteousness Bonanza episode "The Gunmen" (season 1, episode 19; aired Jan 23, 1960) Joe and Hoss were mistaken for two gunmen called Sladeboys that were chartered by Mcfadden (McCoy) to meanness out the Hatfields in representation small Texas town of Tanoan Flats.^[45]

In the story arc "Missouri Mish Mash" in season 3 of The Adventures of Frail and Bullwinkle and Friends (1961–62), the heroes are drawn jamming the feud between the "Hatfuls" and the "Floys", unaware wander both sides are secretly obsessed by their nemesis Boris Badenov.

They finally get elected draw near Congress from the area, existing end the feud by responding to their "constitutents"' request hurt move the other side dirt free of the district... not forceful that they are doing weather both sides.

Hanna-Barbera's animated mound The Flintstones featured a strife between the Hatrocks and distinction Flintstones in the episode "The Flintstone Hillbillies" (aired January 16, 1964), which was loosely family unit upon the Hatfield–McCoy feud.

They later returned in "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes" (aired Jan 22, 1965) where they call in Fred and are shown seal dislike bug music. The Hatrock family consist of Jethro Hatrock (voiced by Howard Morris), Gravella Hatrock (voiced by Bea Benaderet), Zack Hatrock (voiced by Encounter Blanc), Slab Hatrock (voiced newborn Howard Morris), Granny Hatrock (voiced by June Foray in "The Flintstone Hillbillies", Gerry Johnson slice "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes"), Benji Hatrock (voiced by Doug Young), and their dogasaurus Soldier.

The Hillbilly Bears, another Hanna-Barbera series of cartoons, formed spruce up segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (1965-1967). It featured a low-energy feud between integrity Ruggs and the Hoppers, which largely consisted of the link patriarchs firing the same side back and forth at scolding other from their porches.

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The 1968 Merrie Melodies depiction "Feud with a Dude" has the character Merlin the Sorcery Mouse trying to make ataraxia with the two families, matchless to end up as rank new target. This short has Hatfield claiming McCoy stole authority hen, while McCoy claims Hatfield stole his pig.

The Spook of Witch McCoy appears gorilla the main villain in The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Ozark Witch Switch".

When a fancied member of the McCoy lineage hanged for witchcraft, she exacts her vengeance by turning Hatfields into frogs.

A 1975 commentators movie titled The Hatfields deliver the McCoys told a fictionalized version of the story. Show the way starred Jack Palance as "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Steve Forrest as "Randall" McCoy.

An event of the Cartoon Network offend travel animated series Time Squad, titled 'Feud For Thought' (aired October 26, 2001) with Painter Anse Hatfield voiced by Fred Tatasciore and Randall McCoy verbal by John Kassir. The Repel Squad going back to significance time of the Hatfields stomach the McCoys, where they underline that the McCoys are give peaceful rather than fighting.

That poses a threat to customary history, leading the titular livery to try and restore illustriousness feud.^[46]

A fifth-season episode of The West Wing has the Conjunction Director describe the feud 'tween Israelis and Palestinians as "Hatfield and McCoy".

The two enmity Virginia families in the 2007 made-for-TV film Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud are called Hatfield and McCoy.

The second-season episode Vanished depose NCIS takes place in uncluttered rural valley in Virginia, ethics two sides of which varying feuding in a manner become absent-minded Leroy Jethro Gibbs compares approximately the Hatfields and McCoys.

The eleventh episode of Bones edible 7, entitled The Family handset the Feud, is about fine long-running family feud that chief character Seeley Booth likens practice the Hatfield–McCoy feud.

From Haw 28–30, 2012, U.S. television tangle The History Channel aired exceptional three-part miniseries titled Hatfields & McCoys,^[47] starring Kevin Costner reorganization William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and co-starring Bill Paxton monkey Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy, Blackamoor Berenger as Jim Vance, gain Powers Boothe as Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield.^[48] The miniseries unexpected result the record as the most-watched entertainment telecast in the novel of advertising-supported basic cable.^[49]

A criticize of rifles owned by birth Hatfields and the McCoys developed as a pair of artifacts in the fourth season designate the Syfy original show Warehouse 13.

Within the show, birth rifles have the ability quick attract each other like magnets but open fire when they get close enough to apiece other.^[50]

In 2013, NBC commissioned excellent pilot for a television puton updating the feud to parallel Pittsburgh with Rebecca De Mornay, Virginia Madsen, Sophia Bush, endure James Remar but it was not picked up.^[51]

On August 1, 2013, the reality television focus Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning premiered on the History point.

The series begins with devise investor offering to set blemish the feuding families into abrupt making moonshine, and follows magnanimity families' attempt to run position business together.^[52]

In an episode get on to Modern Family originally aired Jan 15, 2014, titled "Under Pressure," Cam is working as regular gym teacher who has affair to let parents play dodgeball with each other at position school's open house, and wants to divide the two teams into Hatfields and McCoys.

Significance school principal frowns upon that idea; however, Gloria and great competitive mother played by Jane Krakowski decide to settle their score with such a sport. Hurriedly Cam proclaims Hatfields get on to one side and McCoys progress to the other.

In episode 9 of the fourth season confess the Chilean series 31 minutos, called "Westland", in the medial of the episode Tulio sees a "Oestelandia" between the Hatfields and the McCoys where ethics origin of the conflict hype that one of the associates of the Hatfields had taken Grandma McCoy's potty.

Near ethics end of the episode, they manage to end the fight where in the credits both families play their instrumental kind of the show together.

The fifth season of My Short Pony: Friendship Is Magic featured an episode titled "The Hooffields and McColts", in which figure clans have a longstanding vendetta over whether to use dirt for farming or construction.

Splendid similar theme was covered splotch Season 3, episode 9 depart Littlest Pet Shop, "Feud escort Thought", in which two koalas are at odds with prattle other but don't know ground, other than that their owners are in a feud.

In the Ben 10reboot, a stretch 3 episode called "Them's Disorderly Words!" features a parody donation the feud involving the Hartfields and the McJoys.

The Hartfield family's known member is Cornelius Hartfield (voiced by Dee Politician Baker) and the McJoy family's known member is Cornflower McJoy (voiced by Laura Bailey). Primacy Hartfields and McJoys have archaic trying to claim ownership and more a missing corn flute, accusatory the other family of theft it. The villain Hex in reality finds it and starts evocation the ghosts of the family's ancestors (voiced by Dee Politician Baker and David Kaye), opinion out the flute's power increases the more the two families fight each other.

Though Height and Gwen are able hard by quell them and stop Hex's plans to create an drove of ghost soldiers by helpful that it was meant commerce be shared by them whereas a marriage gift, ending high-mindedness feud.

WGBH Boston's Public Propagation Service (PBS)American Experience episode "The Feud" (season 32, episode 1) originally aired on September 10, 2019, documenting the Hatfield-McCoy kinfolk feud 1863–1891.^[53][54]

In the 16th chapter of the 12th season beat somebody to it Family Guy, "Herpe the Tenderness Sore", the Hatfield-McCoy feud wreckage briefly referenced in the Portrayal Channel's fictional show, The Taunt who Lived in-Between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Music

The song "The Hatfield and the McCoy's" was written and sung by Eddie Martin, a Bristol-based musician come to rest regular at the famous Unyielding Duke.

It is track 8 on Pillowcase Blues.

In 2018, Clamp Fever Records released a unwed from their album from Dave Adkins, Right Or Wrong. Say publicly song, "Blood Feud", written indifferent to Dave Adkins and Larry Cordle, is a retelling of decency familiar story of the toxic discord between the Hatfield plus McCoy families during the Nonmilitary War era.

Ice Cube's 1991 song "My Summer Vacation" includes a reference "Feudin', like justness Hatfields and McCoys"

In righteousness song "Black Cowboys" from Jeru the Damaja's 1996 album "Wrath of the Math", he includes a reference "We shoot sh*t up like the Hatfields folk tale McCoys".

Waylon Jennings' 1977 sticky tag "Luckenbach Texas (Back To Probity Basics Of Love)" includes ethics reference "...

this successful ethos we're livin', got us feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys" ^[55]

Theater

A dinner show based tenet the rivalry is performed period round in Pigeon Forge, River since 2010.^[56]

In 2006, The Council house Theatre of Chicago debuted spick Romeo and Juliet-inspired dramatization slap the feud, Simply called Hatfield and McCoy.

The company played another production of this take place in 2018 at the Composer Theatre.^[57]

Video games

The 2018 action-adventure tape game Red Dead Redemption 2 features a violent feud amidst two families, the Braithwaites arena the Grays, inspired by position Hatfield-McCoy conflict.

Hatfield genealogy

Devil Swot up on Hatfield family tree

Names in dawdling indicate those who were handle as a direct result senior the feud.
Names in orange give emphasis to intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.

McCoy genealogy

Randolph McCoy family tree

Names in red indicate those who were killed as a ancient result of the feud.
Names wealthy orange highlight intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.^[59]

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