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It is Billy the young man. First published in 1934, when Coe was the last survivor of the Lincoln County War, Frontier Fighter is detailed first-hand account of one of the Wild West’s most exciting incidents and the men who fought in it. George Washington Coe (1856 – 1941) was born in Brighton, in Washington County, Iowa to a Civil War veteran.
This is a photo of my GG grandfather George Coe. Gunman, Coe rode with Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War. Coe moved near Ft Stanton New Mexico in 1874 and worked with a cousin on a ranch.
The Lincoln County War was an Old West range war between rival factions in 1878 in New Mexico Territory. The feud became famous because of the participation of a number of notable figures of the Old West, including Billy the Kid, sheriffs William Brady and Pat Garrett, cattle rancher John Chisum, lawyer and businessman Alexander McSween, and the organized crime boss Lawrence Murphy. The war ...
1 wounded. The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, [1] [2] was a five-day-long firefight between the Murphy-Dolan Faction and the Regulators that took place between July 15–19, 1878, in Lincoln, New Mexico. [3] [4] It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
Sep 28, 2019 · After the Lincoln County War ended George and Frank left New Mexico, living for a time in Colorado and Nebraska before returning to Lincoln County. The photos of George and Frank Coe are from the personal collection of one of the top old west historians, Edward Everett Dale (1879-1972).
The Lincoln County War brought him to the front, but several of the other Regulators were actually the driving force behind the events, and had a history of killing alongside one another prior to the war. Ab Saunders, Charlie Bowdre, Doc Scurlock, Frank Coe, and George Coe had previously killed rustlers
The murder of his friend and employer, John Tunstall, led to the brutal Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Fighting with the Lincoln County Regulators, Billy left a trail of bullet holes and bodies. Towns became battlefields. George W Coe fought alongside Billy the Kid in the gun smoke of the Lincoln County War. Frontier Fighter tells the story ...
