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The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment. Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, and other documentary evidence, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend.

For years, rifle shots echoed through the mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia. Dark secrets were hidden far back in the hollows, and no stranger dared go there. The law stayed away, and justice was found in the barrrel of a gun....

The solo Podcast of J.T. Hatfield (by pen name), The also host/operator of Cast @ 10xxx20 dot COM, a podcast done exclusively in company (as a round table event for a website). This is a new raw podcast also created in transparency, and in motion. Truth being the only law on this new podcast; ...it will come raw, conscious, and mostly unedited and certainly unapologetic-LY. Join a published audio adventure with me on my own as I speak my mind and look for further content like music, live events, and other guests/speakers; to pilot a more interesting brand of media. A podcast that is influenced...

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story of this...