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1988
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American Experience
The Feud 31 Season 7 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
Anderson Hatfield and Randolph McCoy, the patriarchs of the legendary feud, were entrepreneurs seeking to climb up from hardship after fierce economic competition and rapid technological change had turned their lives upside down. When members of both families took their grievances to court, their dispute escalated into a war between two families and a struggle between two states. The Feud reveals more than an isolated story of mountain lust and violence between โhillbilliesโ โ the Hatfield - McCoy feud was a microcosm of the tensions inherent in the nationโs rapid industrialization after the Civil War.
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