The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and ...

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and ...

The infamous feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families may have had a genetic component. A number of West Virginia McCoy descendants have a rare inherited disease which can cause intense, immediate ...

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and ...

Group photo of some of the participants in the Hatfield/McCoy feud circa 1899. J. Winston Coleman Collection Transylvania University Library. NOTE: Please check with News Research before re-using this ...

The feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has become a part of American folklore and myth. More than 100 years later, the story of the feud has become a modern symbol of the perils of family honor ...

My ancestors were Appalachian hillbillies – Scots-Irish settlers with large families and quick tempers. Family clans separated into smaller groups called sets, derived from the Scots septs. They were ...

The History Channel made its own history with "Hatfields & McCoys." The miniseries drew the biggest audience ever for a nonsports event—twice. More than a century later, the storied feud is as much ...

GILBERT, W.Va. -- After generations of bootlegging, direct descendants of the Hatfields have teamed with the McCoy name to produce legal moonshine in southern West Virginia with the state's blessing - ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Hatfield clan New Year's attack on Randolph McCoy's cabin marked a turning point in America's most famous feud — the homestead was set ablaze, and two McCoys were gunned ...