Companion to "When the Legend Ate the Record: The Hatfields, the McCoys, and What the Documents Show"
The Hatfield-McCoy feud left behind one of the richest multi-jurisdictional paper trails in Appalachian history. This companion walks you through the records that matter for genealogists: county court minutes and criminal dockets from Pike, Logan, and Mingo Counties; civil case files from the hog dispute and related property conflicts; cross-border extradition correspondence between the governors of Kentucky and West Virginia; federal court briefs and Supreme Court materials; and census and tax records from 1870 through 1900. For each record type, you will find repository locations, search strategies, and guidance on separating documented family members from the neighbors, tenants, and bystanders the legend absorbed into both clans.