Bloody Breathitt
The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America''s most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early twentieth century, Breathitt''s 500 square miles of rugged upcountry land was known as "the darkest and bloo...
The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America''s most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early twentieth century, Breathitt''s 500 square miles of rugged upcountry land was known as "the darkest and bloo...
