 Kentucky law had finally gone across the border into West Virginia was arresting the Hatfields who had been in trouble for a long time and this infuriated them. They had never really been challenged to this extent before so on New Year's Eve they have a big party and a bunch of them get drunk and they decide we're not gonna stamp this anymore we're just gonna ride over into Kentucky and we're gonna destroy Randolph McCoy and so they surround his cabin late at night on the near midnight there of 1887 1888 and in those early morning hours they burned down his cabin. From that point forward the press across the country gets on the side of the McCoys and starts screaming for justice and things move quickly to bring the feud to an end and that propelled our story of what was going on here in the Hatfield McCoy feud into a national audience and it paints us with this hibilly image that we sometimes still suffer from today.