Ranel mccoy biography

On June 14, 2003, the people of Pikeville, Kentucky, witnessed the final chapter in one of the country’s most bitter rivalries when the two families known as the Hatfields and the McCoys signed a truce, thus proclaiming to “hereby and formally declare an official end to all hostilities, implied, inferred and real, between the families, now and forevermore.” 

During the 19th century, few people hated each other more than these two clans.

Why? Some say it was over a land dispute—others due to their opposing allegiances during the Civil War. Some say it was even because of a stolen pig. Whatever the reason, the Hatfields and McCoys engaged in a bloody feud that lasted for decades and left dozens of kinsmen on both sides either dead or in prison.

Meet the Families

To begin our tale, we must travel to a remote area of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Tug Valley where Kentucky and West Virginia are separated by the Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River.

Here we