Part history, part folklore, what is the real story of the Hatfields and McCoys? Site provides the story of the American Romeo and Juliet and an excellent study of American folk culture. Go to other areas of this site for more history of the town of Matewan.

Concepts

appalachia, west virginia, west virginia history

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Additional Tags

americana, matewan online: the hatfield and mccoy feud, general historic information about west virginia

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information