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Nov 16, 2009 · The big ranchers, led by John Chisum and Alexander McSween, didn’t believe merchants should dominate the beef markets and began to challenge The House.
When lawyer Alexander McSween and a young Englishman, John H. Tunstall, began competing with local merchants Lawrence G. Murphy and James Dolan in the tiny community of Lincoln, New Mexico, in the late 1870s, the result was the Lincoln County War.
English-born John Tunstall and his business partner Alexander McSween opened a competing store in 1876, with backing from established cattleman John Chisum. The two sides gathered lawmen, businessmen, Tunstall's ranch hands, [2] and criminal gangs to their assistance.
Jun 12, 2006 · Immediately after the posse had shot down Tunstall, Alexander McSween gathered around him a cadre of the toughest men he could find. Some were already on the Tunstall payroll, some were sent by Chisum and some joined because they had a grudge against the House–all were bad men to mess with.
In 1877, Alexander McSween, a lawyer, and John Tunstall, a wealthy 24-year-old English cattleman and banker, set up a rival business called H.H. Tunstall & Company near the one owned by Dolan, Murphy, and Riley. Supporting them was a large ranch owner named John Chisum, who owned more than 100,000 head of cattle.
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Alexander McSween. Alexander McSween was born in about 1843. He became an attorney and on 23rd August, 1873, he married Susan Hummer. The couple moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1875 and soon afterwards McSween did legal work for John Chisum. In 1876 John Tunstall arrived in the area.
Jun 27, 2011 · The educated and handsome Alexander McSween died with five bullets in his body. His widow and friends swore revenge. These men, Hispanic and white, were mostly young. Famed author Fred Nolan reminds us how young: “All of McSween’s fighting men were in their twenties and many, like Yginio Salazar, still in their teens.
