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Explains the roots and legacy of the famous feud. Includes a timeline of the feud. Includes a bibliography for further reading. Includes a table of material. "These were men, who matched the mountains, they were Hatfields and McCoys. These were men, who matched the mountains. These were men, when they were boys." (Jimmy Wolford) A lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. The feud between your Hatfields and McCoys is the products of American story and is becoming synonymous with vendettas. In fact it is becoming its own term for any large-scale disagreement and has made its way into everything from music to tv and movies. Though the fighting took place over a hundred years ago, Americans stay so fascinated with it that THE ANNALS Channel's 2012 miniseries about the feuding individuals set documents for cable tv ratings. These days the feud between your Hatfields and McCoys is a famous piece of North american folklore, but also for two individuals living over the West Virginia-Kentucky boundary over the last 50 % of the 19th century, the feud was virtually a subject of life and loss of life. Twenty-first century America might celebrate this relic of the country's rural former, but society would also likely scoff at the idea of a couple of rural individuals taking potshots at one another through the woods over slights as insignificant as a taken pig.
