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Jan 22, 2021 · It is unclear how he became acquainted with Billy the Kid and the other Regulators (Doc Scurlock, Charlie Bowdre, Richard Brewer, and others), but he would prove to be useful to them. The Lincoln County War was a cattle war between the Tunstall-McSween faction and the Dolan gang.
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 ...
On July 18, 1876, Bowdre, Scurlock, Frank Coe, George Coe, and Ab Saunders stormed the very weak Lincoln jail, freeing cattle rustler Jesus Largo from the custody of Sheriff Saturnino Baca, taking Largo outside of town and hanging him. No charges were ever filed for the event. On August 5, 1877, he and a companion were arrested for "shooting up ...
When these troops pointed cannons at the Ellis store and other positions, Billy the Kid, Doc Scurlock and his men fled from their positions, as did Chavez's cowboys, leaving those remaining in the McSween house to their fate. On the afternoon of July 19, the Murphy-Dolan faction set the house afire.
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
The movies done Doc Scurlock wrong. Or at least the Young Guns flicks did. The real guy wasn’t Keifer Sutherland-handsome. He wasn’t as loquaciously poetic. He didn’t marry a beautiful “celestial” ward of L.G. Murphy. And he sure as heck didn’t die bloody in the final reel. The real Doc was born in Alabama in 1849.
