"The murder stirred up a tremendous excitement among the McCoys and Hatfields."

One brief and bloody tale from the epic Hatfield-McCoy feud was chronicled in the November 13, 1890 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Charleston, W. Va.–Bud McCoy was waylaid by William Dyer and Ples McCoy on Peter’s Creek, Pike County, Ky., while on his way to the house of John Gostin and killed. The victim spoke pleasantly to the two men and passed them, when they turned in their saddles and shot him through the back, firing several shots into his dead body after he fell from his horse. The murder stirred up a tremendous excitement among the McCoys and Hatfields, and a posse at once started after the murderers, who fled through the Southwest corner of West Virginia into Kentucky. News was received to-day that the posse came up with the fugitives in Buchanan County, Virginia, Monday. Ples McCoy was shot and captured, but Dyer escaped after a running fight. A portion of he posse is in pursuit and he will probably be killed.”

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Hatfields vs. McCoys, Family Feud, 1979: