Appalachian Blood Feuds

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ETA: if you can find it, there is a good 3-part miniseries on the feud. It's called, unoriginally, "Hatfields and McCoys", and has Kevin Costner playing Devil Anse, Bill Paxton playing McCoy, and Tom Berenger playing "Uncle Jim" Vance. You might be able to find it on a streaming service or at the History Channel website. 3 parts, 2 hours each, total of 6 hours, and does a pretty good job of telling the story.

(Sorry to 727Sky for going off topic)

I was aware of the miniseries and it's pencilled-in to be watched. My own modern-day fascination lies in how
this became such a deadly situation worthy of manifesting into Virginian lore.

Did the Press at the time hold the same class-built school of thought that today's media has that implied
supposedly 'uneducated folk' would always deal with such matters in the same manner the Penny-Dreadful
portrayed the Wild West or had that region been singled out due to their assumed isolationism beliefs?

I would dare to say such disputes occurred elsewhere in the US, but this one seems to be the mainstay.