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On February 18, 2019 it will mark the 141st anniversary of the brutal murder of John Tunstall at the hands of the Lincoln, New Mexico deputies. It would spark what has been called the bloodiest extended gunfight of the Old West. Over the next several months and even years, men were gunned down and violent stand offs were the norm.
Feb 18, 2023 · Tunstall & Co. drew support from rancher and cattle baron John Chisum, * who owned over 100,000 head of cattle. As a result , Tunstall became, in effect, the leader of the anti-House contingent. Although Tunstall opposed violence, he knew the potential danger of his actions and began recruiting young guns for protection.
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.
Oct 8, 2015 · John Henry Tunstall was young, ambitious, and eager to make his fortune. Many historians have alluded to Tunstall’s greed, to say nothing of the greed of his opposition – “The House ...
Nov 7, 2023 · John Tunstall was a well-liked man, and his death caused many uprisings. His cowhands and other local citizens formed a group known as the Regulators to bring justice to his murder; however, since New Mexico was still a territory, the entire criminal justice system was controlled by allies of Murphy and Dolan, who were the men responsible for ...
John Tunstall was born in Dalston, England, on 6th March, 1853. He emigrated to the United States in 1876 and soon after arriving in Lincoln County met Alexander McSween. The two men became business partners. By this time James Dolan, Lawrence Murphy and John H. Riley had established the Murphy & Dolan mercantile and banking operation.
In 1877, an Englishman named John Tunstall came to town to create competition for the local monopoly that owned the main store and had a corner on the lucrative contracts to deliver cattle to the ...
