Strong-but-dumb Ike McBatt is from a Hillbilly family living in the small backwoods community of Wildweed Run (pop. 49). Ozark Ike is an all-around athlete, playing baseball, football and Basketball. Between seasons, he enters the boxing ring. Ozark Ike's girlfriend is Dinah Fatfield, whose family has been involved in a feud with the McBatt clan for several generations. As evident in the names, this background situation of the strip was inspired by the Hatfield-McCoy feud. "Ozark Ike" was the nickname of major league baseball players Gus Zernial .