About 80 people took part in the feud from 1863 to 1891 in the Tug River Valley between Logan County, West Virginia, and Pike County, Kentucky. Family against family, friend against friend, blood against blood; gun battles, knife fights, assassination attempts, a volatile Romeo and Juliet romance, a public execution of a man who may have been innocent. 11 recorded murders; 4 Hatfields and 7 McCoys, 9 men imprisoned, 7 for life. The conflict that began during the Civil War and with the absence of a strong local authority, minor disputes escalated to a full-blown war in the mountains. Fueled by competition between newspaper moguls, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, a political contest between two governors led to the Supreme Court.
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