The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New M…
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The Real Doc Josiah Gordon Scurlock ain’t the guy made famous as Billy the Kid’s sidekick in Young Guns.
The movies done Doc Scurlock wrong. Or at least the Young Guns flicks did. The real guy wasn’t Keifer Sutherland-handsom…
A Change of Heart Outlaw Henry Brown tried to turn a new leaf…
Fall 1878. Twenty-one-year-old Henry Brown took a job as a lawman in Tascosa, TX. It’s a bit of a change. He’d just fini…
A Badman Gone Good Regulator Fred Waite turned his life around.
Fred Waite is notorious to history as a member of the Regulators, the group featuring Billy the Kid involved in the Linc…
Lawrence Murphy and the Lincoln County War
Lawrence Murphy’s name is synonymous with New Mexico’s Lincoln County War. He began his business there in 1869, monopoli…
Amnesty for George Coe
George Coe fought as a Regulator during the Lincoln County War, and got something his pal Billy the Kid didn’t—amnesty f…
Big Jim French
Big Jim French was at most of the important actions in the Lincoln County War. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the g…
Blurred Lines
The Lincoln County War in New Mexico was never as cut and dried as it might seem. Numerous men switched sides at various…
The Toughest Man West of the Pecos John S. Chisum carved an empire across the Southwest.
“Chisum! John Chisum! Weary. Saddle worn.” Sorry. Every time I think of John Simpson Chisum, I think of the 1970 J…