farming land, and randolph mccoy thought that he recognized one of the pigs on floyd hatfield's farm and how they had had been stolen from his arm and nobody could convince him to drop it. so mccoy complained to the authorities organized a trial and mccoy lost that trial and was a great experience for him but he let it roll off and everybody moved on another problem was this conflict because the hatfield and mccoy's and many relatives all over the area. so for a yearea and t a half afr the trial to mccoy's nephews got into a fight with a witness who had testified against mccoy in the trial and the beat the man to death. so this is the moment the feud became sort of combusted it a high conflict morphed into an intractable one and there was of course the next decade there was a stabbing vigilantes shooting, or case, you know women were beaten and 80 people got drawn into the feud across the region. and i explained this to say that one of the conditions that reliably seem to lead into high conflict in every case that i looked at our powerful group identities that are made by leaders. so