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Killing of John Tunstall On February 18, 1878, members of the Sheriff's posse caught up to Tunstall while he and his ranch-hands, Richard "Dick" Brewer, Billy the Kid, John Middleton , Henry Newton Brown , Robert A. Widenmann, and Fred Waite , were herding his last nine horses back to Lincoln.
Jun 10, 2021 · That makes John Tunstall perhaps the nation’s first Old West preservationist. A whole army of people have followed him over the last 143 years—people dedicated to using their time, money, influence or pig-headedness to assure that Western heritage doesn’t disappear. After all, it was Lincoln’s own Lynda Sánchez who once warned this ...
In 1876, John Tunstall, an Englishman, displaced Robert Casey’s widow from the Felix River land by using the Desert Land Act. He drove his herd of cattle to the Felix Valley and occupied the dugout until he could build a four-room adobe house at the upper springs of the Felix River. The dugout was then used as a rider’s camp for his men.
Jun 9, 2023 · In the aftermath, Tunstall’s supporters claimed that he was murdered in cold blood. Supporters of the Dolan faction insisted that he had been shot down while resisting arrest by lawfully commissioned deputy sheriffs of Lincoln County. The murder of John Tunstall provided the spark that ignited the Lincoln County War.
John Henry Tunstall was born on March 6th, 1853 in the Hackney district of London, England. John was one of six siblings, and the only son of John Partridge Tunstall and Emilie Ramie, who were wed on May 2nd, 1849. Tunstall likely attended the London Polytechnic school as well as other boarding schools in London.
The Murder of John Tunstall. by J. Young. John Tunstall was buried behind the Tunstall Store to the NE. The burial site is on private property, but there is a marker placed behind the Tunstall store in his honor. On the evening of February 17th, 1878, Tunstall arrived at his modest ranch after a disappointing trip to South Springs Ranch.
Sep 25, 2010 · John Tunstall’s kin traveled from England to fathom death in Lincoln. You could call the visit a “belated family reunion.” Five members of a proper English family gathered in a New Mexico canyon in July 2010 on an oppressively hot day, quite unlike the 70-ish summer climate of the United Kingdom.
