BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Each year thousands of people fire up their ATV’s and ride along the Hatfield-McCoy trail system, ...

The feud emerged at the tail end of the 19th century between two families, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, who lived on opposite sides of a stream called the Tug Fork.

Photographs of the real people in the Hatfield and the McCoy families, whose famously violent 19th century feud has shaped perceptions of Appalachian life. The feud between the Hatfields and ...

And the trail system is still growing more than two decades later. Lusk said the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system now extends through nine southern West Virginia counties, including Mercer and McDowell ...