Devil Anse Hatfield

Devil Anse Hatfield was the West Virginia patriarch most closely associated with the Hatfield side of the Hatfield–McCoy feud. The surviving record places this person within the historical events represented in Ann Rinaldi’s fiction.

Historical fiction may reconstruct private conversations, motives and emotional responses that sources do not preserve. The relationship is included because the person is portrayed under a real historical identity, while invented details should not be treated as documentary biography.