Chapter 1 | The Feud | American Experience | PBS 

I had no idea they inspired those cartoons. You can actually hear them say McCoy! I grew up watching those. Wow! So interesting.

I found this small and super interesting documentary. Very informative and really well told. Personally, I find it very sad and humiliating what stories are still spread today about the people of Appalachia. From inbreeding to ignorance. I personally think that this family tragedy is very significant at a time when it was all about pure survival. The Civil War certainly changed people, and the South in particular suffered greatly under the circumstances that prevailed after the war. All in all, adverse living conditions in which it could very easily come to such disputes. I personally find the story of these two families extremely interesting. Even if it was connected with a lot of suffering over decades

Not speaking on the feud or its applicants, but the plight of the people of the mountainous region of western Virginia or eastern Kentucky, I always believed what elevated the development and living standards amongst them was the TVA. It was the introduction of household power, lights, etc., more than anything else that lifted these people out of their "Old Ways".

My mom's family is from WV. This is great.

Both of my parents were from West Virginia.

I can't wait to watch this!

Fleming Hurley,a descendant of mine,was involved in this feud

And my great great grandmother was just a kid when the feud was happening

I am related to the McCoy’s my great great grandmother was in the first book I can’t remember her real name but her nickname was Pet McCoy I think

I am related to Hatfield

Is that the saying the real mccoy

I am devil anse Great great great grandson Proud to be part of the hayfield clan

What do they mean by intermarried?

Damn even the lil kids was strapped to the tee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"We need to understand that sometimes the people telling the story about violence have as much of an agenda as the people who were acting out the violence in the first place." Boy is that true! Some people or groups always have an agenda to get you believing them.

We all descended from some version of Hatfield or McCoy's.

Im from Kentucky Harlan County.

My dad's family is from West Virginia he said we were involved in this feud he didn't explain how though

Bugs Bunny on American experience.

This is a very interesting history that I never heard of. Of course PBS will present this with an obvious slant. Nonetheless I will watch this doc and then conduct my own research.

Usually people who claimed land long in America's past were able tp acquire wealth. This does not, however, seem to be the case in Appalachia. Was the lack of development in the area due to the environment? The standard of living of living seems very low in terms of material wealth.

Anyone from school assignment?

Idiodically assembled series. Fist is chap1, then no chap 2 3 4 label. , only 8 min long and remainder are 1 or 2 min. How stupid.

Sorry, this is NOT the "American Story"--the reality is the book "Hillbilly Elegy." Some of my ancestors were Scotch-Irish and settled in the WVa-Pennsylvania border area in the late 1700s. Within one generation they had educated themselves out of the log cabins (one was an early grad of Bethany College). Within two generations, they became doctors, dentists, businessmen (one was chief counsel to the MKT Railroad). On the other side, my "rural ancestors" in 19thc western NYS didn't run around having 11 children; they worked on the family farm--and teaching school--til around the age of 30 when they could afford to buy land and start a family. And, of course, they were ALL anti-slavery and fought for the Union. The kind of lifestyle depicted here is the losers who refused to evolve and become educated beyond their primitive roots.