(03-10-2024, 09:32 AM)BIAD Wrote: Continuing to read-up on back-stories on the Hatfield/McCoy situation (and secretly enjoying it!), I would propose that such matters of what is lawful tended to depend on the individual holding the firearm in that region of the USA!
Oddly, my mom married us into one of the last remaining feuds in the US. My stepfather was the last remaining blood kin when he passed away and the feud was quietly alive up to his passing. He adopted a son to carry his name, but he was crippled in a plane crash and produced no heirs. The Yearling (1946), mildly addresses the feud, but doesn't provide the actual family names.
This'll give ya an idea of the amount of land the two families lived on (red box). If memory serves, the actual feuding started up there in the top right in Crescent City. The snakebite incident happened in the bottom left.
I grew up in the town a little to the south and west of the box ... DeLand.