10:23am

Thu May 31, 2012
Mountain Kentucky

Miniseries 'Hatfields and McCoys' Draws Huge Audience

Credit History channel
Kevin Costner, second from right, stars as Devil Anse Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys. Bill Paxton portrays Randall McCoy. The miniseries was been a runaway ratings winner, cable or network.

If Virginia is for lovers, then Pike County is for feuding. The History channel miniseries about the infamous Kentucky and West Virginia families has drawn huge viewership, propelling the Eastern Kentucky county into the pop-culture ether and pushing a historical tome by a Lexington publisher to the top of the sales charts.