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Feb 18, 2013 · Young Tunstall started a general store in the town of Lincoln and he also bought a cattle ranch on the Rio Feliz River. One of John Henry’s cowboys was a young man named William Henry McCarty. Lincoln County was filled with Texas ranchers, outlaws and ex-soldiers from both sides of the Civil War and all were well accustomed to violence.
This murder was the spark that began the firestorm that became known in the national news as the Lincoln County Wars. Tunstall and his friend McSween are buried side by side right behind the post office in Lincoln. A monument and a historical marker identify the location of John Tunstall's murder at: 33.36397293036773, -105.43614845176148
Text-to-speech Audio. John H. Tunstall was born on March 6, 1853 in London and became a rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico in the 1870s. Tungstall competed with ethnic Irish merchants and politicians in the county. He was the first man killed in what became the Lincoln County War, an economic and political conflict that resulted ...
Oct 26, 2011 · John H. Tunstall Murder Site. This New Mexico Historical Marker is on US 70 near Glenco, New Mexico. In one of the Lincoln Country War's easrliest violent encounters, John H. Tunstall was shot and killed at a nearby site on February 18, 1878. Tunstall's death set off a series of violent reprisals between his friends, among whom was William ...
Jan 22, 2007 · Glencoe, New Mexico (NM), US. Site where Englishman John Henry Tunstall was murdered on 18 February 1878. Tunstall is remembered today only because one of his employees at the time of his murder was William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid. The spot where Tunstall fell mortally wounded from his horse is marked with a lump of cement holding in place ...
Aug 15, 2018 · The Last Ride of John H. Tunstall. Map depicting the locations of major events of John H. Tunstall's last 48 hours, 16–18 February, 1878, New Mexico Territory. In 1877, a wayward young fellow named William H. Bonney, destined to be known by the world as Billy the Kid, rode into New Mexico Territory fleeing trouble back in Arizona Territory.
Feb 18, 2023 · The enforcement arm of the Tunstall-McSween group—the Regulators—responded to Tunstall’s cold-blooded murder with a vengeance. The Kid and his cohorts retaliated by killing Sheriff Brady,* triggering the start of the Lincoln County War. Branded as outlaws, the Regulators fled Lincoln County authorities. The conflict claimed more than ...
