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Bad Luck Ranch

by | Apr 25, 2019 | True West Blog

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It just didn’t pay to own ranch land along the Feliz River in Lincoln County, NM. Robert Casey (photo) squatted on the land, building a dugout and running cattle in the early 1870s. Casey never filed on the property, so when he was murdered in 1875, John Tunstall claimed the land as his own and displaced the Casey survivors. Tunstall was killed in 1878. Soon after, his enemy James Dolan got the land


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