A doctor and pastor found little healing during the Lincoln County War.
After moving his family to Lincoln, New Mexico Territory, in February 1878, Presbyterian missionary and physician Taylor Filmore Ealy discovered they had moved into the middle of a bloody range war. Ealy, his wife, Mary, and their two young children barely survived the Five Day Battle of July 15-19, 1878, and soon thereafter were reassigned to a Zuni mission in
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