The death of Lincoln County attorney Huston Chapman.
February 18-19, 1879. The two sides in the Lincoln County War have a peace conference to end the conflict. The talks are successful–probably fueled by alcohol consumption on both sides. The group runs into one-armed attorney Huston I. Chapman. He’s an enemy of House leader Jimmy Dolan (photo). One of Dolan’s bodyguards, Billy Campbell, fires a bullet point-blank into Chapman; he drops dead on the spot. Campbell is eventually captured and jailed in the killing, but he escapes and makes his way to Arizona. He reportedly is lynched there in 1881.
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