Left for Dead

July 19, 1878 As a raging fire engulfs another room, Alexander McSween and his men move into the kitchen, the last standing room of his adobe home in Lincoln, New Mexico. A large posse under Sheriff George Peppin surrounds the house, with four or five deputies stationed along the back fence that faces the kitchen. At approximately 9 p.m., five McSween adherents, including Billy the Kid, run toward a gate on the east side of the yard. The first to get there, Harvey Morris, is shot dead; the Ki