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The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").
16. Nov. 2009 · 1878. Murder ignites Lincoln County War. Long simmering tensions in Lincoln County, New Mexico, explode into a bloody shooting war when gunmen murder the English rancher John Tunstall.
- Missy Sullivan
Contents. Lincoln County War. United States history. Learn about this topic in these articles: Lincoln county. In Lincoln. …was the centre of the Lincoln County War (1878), fought between rival merchants for economic domination. It began with accusations of cattle rustling and escalated to murder and a five-day gun battle at the courthouse.
2. Nov. 2021 · New Mexico's Lincoln County War began in 1878 as a dispute between two cattle barons over ranch land, but it quickly escalated into one of the Wild West's bloodiest fights. In 1870s New Mexico, two rival businessmen and cattle ranchers battled for supremacy in Lincoln County with gangs of deputized lawmen.
The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, was a five-day-long firefight between the Murphy-Dolan Faction and the Regulators that took place between July 15–19, 1878, in Lincoln, New Mexico. It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
- July 15-19, 1878
- Regulators escaped and disbanded afterwards
The Lincoln County War was a conflict between rival cattle barons in 19th-century New Mexico Territory. In the early 1870s, two men named Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan owned the only store in Lincoln County — Murphy & Dolan Mercantile and Banking.
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. From February 18, 1878, to February 18, 1879, the rivals fought for economic supremacy, first ...
