The John Wayne movie “McClintock” was based on the Logan County wars.
The Hatfield-McCoy Trail is pretty cool. It goes through Branwell WV, town with the highest per-capita # of millionaires at the beginning of the 20th century. Most of them would die by their own hand.
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I once happened upon a youtube documentary a few years back about the feud, was curious and watched it. So interesting. I’m in no way from any of this part of the country, I’m from Long Island but this story is pretty much part of
America.
Thank you for putting this on here. Just so interesting to see.
I found it particularly interesting Cap Hatfield had been in the civil war and that is where his nickname came from.
I remember they had a Hatfield and McCoy reality TV show a few years back...following the two families now.
If memory serves, both families now were just a bunch of, dumb, under achieving, lazy grifters, trying to make a buck through various doomed to fail schemes and what not.
The whole feud was long forgotten.
The History Channel had a mini-series in the feud a few years ago that was excellent. It had an all-star cast with Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Tom Berlinger and Powers Booth, to name a few. It was very good and pretty historically accurate.accurate.
Jim Vance grave.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7eR4Z_98Y&pp=ygUhaGF0ZmllbGQgbWNjb3kgdHJhaWxzIHZhbmNlIGdyYXZl