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In Hatfields and McCoysThe Hatfields were headed by William Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield (1839–1921), and the McCoys by Randolph (“Rand’l”) McCoy (1839?–1921), each of whom fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy). The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in…\n
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association with Logan, West Virginia
- In Logan
…notorious mountain-family feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. The area was the scene of a major disaster in 1972 when coal-mine waste waters burst a makeshift dam on Buffalo Creek and inundated several neighbouring mining communities, killing 118 people. The mining industry, trade, and services are the city’s main…\n
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history of Kentucky
In Kentucky: Civil War and its aftermath…was the feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. As summarized by the historian Thomas D. Clark in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992), “Kentucky in 1900 epitomized the conditions of an intensely rural agrarian state with a distinctively regional mind-set.”\n
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In Hatfields and McCoysThe Hatfields were headed by William Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield (1839–1921), and the McCoys by Randolph (“Rand’l”) McCoy (1839?–1921), each of whom fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy). The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in…
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association with Logan, West Virginia
- In Logan
…notorious mountain-family feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. The area was the scene of a major disaster in 1972 when coal-mine waste waters burst a makeshift dam on Buffalo Creek and inundated several neighbouring mining communities, killing 118 people. The mining industry, trade, and services are the city’s main…
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history of Kentucky
In Kentucky: Civil War and its aftermath…was the feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. As summarized by the historian Thomas D. Clark in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992), “Kentucky in 1900 epitomized the conditions of an intensely rural agrarian state with a distinctively regional mind-set.”
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