Ryan Hardesty

You may have heard this story in its more popular version, which has turtles instead of rocks, but the earliest version discovered (1838) goes like this...

From time to time someone will ask me, perhaps only half seriously, who won the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Given the way we think of feuds, as mighty struggles between two equal, or nearly equal, clans, it’s a legitimate question. So let’s have at it.

A Tale of Two Tales: The Legend of Abner Vance Part 1 of 3. By Ryan Hardesty, Creator of “The Real Hatfield, Real McCoy, Real Feud, Real Matewan Facebook Group”