The Hatfield-McCoy feud may have started with a mysterious wartime murder. But it deepened because of a razorback hog. In 1878 — 13 years after Asa’s death — his brother Randolph McCoy ...

In 1878, Randall accused a relative of Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield of stealing one of the McCoys’ hogs. Randall took the more affluent Hatfields to court in Kentucky but lost. A vicious ...

At the center of the of the conflict were the two family patriarchs: William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of ...