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Hatfields and McCoys

roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2012 in General Discussion
Premieres Memorial Day at 9/8c (1:02)

http://www.history.com/shows/hatfields-and-mccoys/videos/hatfields-and-mccoys-sneak-peek
Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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    roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Part 2 of 3 on history channel now
    I am think it's a good acct
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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    roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who's watching and what do you think so far?


    I'm not an expert on the history of the feud but I've never read anything that says Anse Hatfield and Randal McCoy were in the same civil war unit
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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    roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On History Channel (Directv 269)
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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    slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good so far.
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    roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow. Reap what you sow.
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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    armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,483 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watched Part 1 tonight with the wife have Part2 scheduled for the DVR tonight as well as Part3. Pretty good so far.
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    William81William81 Member Posts: 24,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am enjoying it...
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    JohnTJohnT Member Posts: 384 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Historically more accurate than any tinseltown effort to date. I had kinfolks in and around Eastern Kentucky from Pike to Harlan counties who were on hand to see some of that drama and knew a few members of the extended families. Those people were completely serious about a blood feud, and many carried it to their graves.

    My grandfather's brother lived in the Tug Fork area on the Kentucky side of the river within a day's walk of the Hatfield and McCoy properties. Don't scoff. In those hills, a day's walk was about 10 statute miles. It took a while.

    Reports from people who were there say that the feud actually continued well into the 30s...but mostly fistfights and the occasional non-lethal knifing...and you could get a fight started by simply voicing an opinion on who was in the right/wrong, depending on which side you took and who happened to overhear it.

    For those who are interested in Appalachian history, there was another smaller, lesser-known feud that began in the 1890s and culminated in the Hillsville Courthouse tragedy in Carroll County Virginia, near the North Carolina border. You can get into a fight to this day in Carroll County by taking the wrong side...again, depending on which side you take and who's listening. I'm acquainted with a few members of the descendants of the Allen clan, and some of them still harbor ill will a hundred years after the incident. "Carrying a grudge" is redefined in Appalachia.
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    yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Second half played out out to me as a Redneck "Romeo and Juliet".
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    JohnTJohnT Member Posts: 384 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They ain't rednecks.

    Here's a "smatterin" of Mountain talk. Ain't been in them hills in quite a spell, but I knows just 'zactly what they's sayin'.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXghKHHzlXQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,977 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
    Second half played out out to me as a Redneck "Romeo and Juliet".



    The media at the time tried to play it out exactly like that.
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