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Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock was born at Tallapoosa, Alabama on January 11, 1849. He was about 10 years older than Billy the Kid. His nickname was come by honestly: he is believed to have studied medicine in New Orleans. He was a most unusual gunfighter: a doctor, farmer, poet, teacher, later a linguist and reader of the classics.
Josiah "Doc" Scurlock is a member of John Tunstall's Regulators in Lincoln County, New Mexico. He used to ride with the Dirty Underwear Gang out of Liberty, Missouri. During the events of Young Guns (1988) played by Kiefer Sutherland
He was born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, the sixth of 11 children born to Priestly Norman Scurlock (July 3, 1806 – June 22, 1876) and Esther Ann Brown (May 19, 1819 – June 1, 1903). Josiah was said to have studied medicine in New Orleans, thus receiving his nickname "Doc". Described as 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall, weighing 150 pounds (68 kg), with brown eyes and dark blond hair, Doc ...
Doc Scurlock - One of John Chisum's cowboys, a compadre of Billy the Kid, captain of the Regulators, veteran of numerous gun battles, and survivor of the Lincoln County War. This is the first-ever, definitive biography of Josiah Gordon Scurlock, the enigmatic intellectual whose amazing and remarkable life brought him into contact with some the ...
Together with Billy the Kid, Doc Scurlock, Charlie Bowdre, and the rest of the Regulators, Chávez engaged in the Lincoln County War that lasted from 1878 to 1879. Chávez met Billy the Kid, Jim French , Fred Waite , Charlie Bowdre, John Middleton , and Tom O'Folliard after he decided to join the Tunstall-McSween group in their war against the ...
Josiah Gordon Scurlock was born January 11th 1850 in Alabama. He briefly studied medicine in New Orleans and this gave him the nickname 'Doc'. He moved to Mexico in 1870 and got involved in a argument over a card game. Guns were drawn and the other man shot first, the bullet knocked out Doc's two front teeth and exited through the back of his ...
Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock (11 January 1849 – 25 July 1929) was an American Wild West gunfighter who was affiliated with the Lincoln County Regulators. Josiah Gordon Scurlock was born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama in 1849, and he was nicknamed "Doc" while studying medicine in New Orleans. In 1870, he shot and killed a card game rival in Mexico, and he lost his front teeth to a bullet that ...
