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Date Posted: 15:17:10 11/19/11 Sat
Author: High Line Rider
Subject: Susan McSween ( Female Cattle Barron)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McSween

This Is One Of The wealthiest Cattle Women In The History Of The Old West.

She Was Also A Friend Of Billy The Kid .

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[> Re: Susan McSween ( Female Cattle Barron) / The "Lincoln County War" of 1878. -- Joe H., 18:59:35 11/23/11 Wed [1]

Thanks H.L.R.

I read over at there that: of the following that I've tried to consolidate, but that it got toward too many names in the end, of what I believe was a planned "mistake" by those with political power entrenched against Free Enterprise at the county/state level against that of a local constable who did the right thing of to issue his warrants against the thugs as hired by the county corruptors! who had the governor in their pocket as owing money to them on loans for his candidacy to issue that proclamation that went retrospective (unlawful) back-dated against the local warrants declaring them no good from the start. And because of the contracts with the U.S. Government "Billy the Kid" and the others helping on the original town warrants ended up being criminals of Uncle Sam when Colonel Nathan Dudley of the U.S. Army came to set fire to the Alex and Susan McSween house. Is this where the creators of that cartoon of "Dudley Do-Right" of the Canadian Mounted Police came from? Reference that fiction to this true-life wrong of a Dudley Do-Wrong of some Federal officer what? taking orders from some corrupt governor!? Notice that The Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 18, 1878 of that a civil officer canNOT call upon help for military action unless by an Act of Congress, lest he be fined and/or imprisoned.

"The conflict (in Lincoln County, New Mexico) pitted two factions against each other, over the control of dry goods trade in the county. The older, established faction (of Irish Catholic) was led by (general store monopolist Lawrence) Murphy and his business partner, James Dolan, (and their partner ______(?) Riley) who had a dry goods monopoly run through Murphy's general store. (LG Murphy and Co. and the only store in the county.)(and who bought much of their cattle from rustlers, also had beef contracts from the United States government.)(and was loaning thousands of dollars to the Territorial Governor, and the Territorial Attorney General would eventually hold the mortgage on the firm.) (and provided financing for farms and ranches)
(v.s.)
Young newcomers to the county, (wealthy) English-born John Tunstall and his business partner (young attorney) Alexander McSween, (mostly Irish/Scottish Protestants) with backing from established cattleman John Chisum, opened a competing store in (November) 1876. (and hoping to set up a profitable cattle ranch, ... and bank (too)) The two sides gathered lawmen, businessmen, and criminal gangs to their sides.

(1) The Murphy-Dolan faction were allied with Lincoln County Sheriff Brady, and supported by the Jesse Evans Gang.

(2) The Tunstall-McSween faction organized their own posse of armed men, known as the Regulators, to defend their position, and had their own lawman, town constable Richard "Dick" Brewer. . .

In February 1878, in a court case that was eventually dismissed, (Murphy) obtained a court order to seize all of McSween's assets, but mistakenly* included all of Tunstall's assests with those of McSween.[2] Sheriff Brady formed a posse to attach Tunstall's remaining assets at his ranch some seventy miles from Lincoln. Few local citizens would join Brady's posse, which enlisted a gang of outlaws known as the Jesse Evans Gang. Lawrence Murphy and Dolan also enlisted the John Kinney Gang.

On February 18, 1878, members of the Sheriff's posse caught up to Tunstall, who was herding his last nine horses back to Lincoln. It was later determined by Frank Warner Angel, a special investigator for the Secretary of the Interior, that Tunstall was shot in "cold blood" by Jesse Evans, William Morton, and Tom Hill.[3] Tunstall's murder was witnessed from a distance by several of his men, including Richard Brewer and Billy the Kid. Tunstall's murder is considered the event that officially marked the beginning of the Lincoln County War.

Tunstall's cowhands and other local citizens formed a group known as the Regulators to avenge his murder since the entire criminal justice system in the Territory was controlled by allies of Murphy, Dolan & Co. While the Regulators at various times consisted of dozens of American and Mexican cowboys, the main dozen or so members were known as the "iron clad", including McCarty, Richard "Dick" Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O'Folliard, Fred Waite, and Henry Newton Brown.

The Regulators immediately set out to apprehend the sheriff's posse members who had murdered Tunstall. However, after the Regulators were deputized**, and along with Constable Martinez, they attempted to serve the legally issued warrant on Tunstall's murderers[ . ] Martinez and his deputies were illegally arrested, disarmed, and jailed by Sheriff Brady. After being finally released from jail the Regulators then went looking for Tunstall's murderers. They found Buck Morton, Dick Lloyd, and Frank Baker near the Rio Peñasco. Morton surrendered after a five mile (8 km) running gunfight on the condition that Morton and his fellow deputy sheriff, Frank Baker, who, though he had no part in the Tunstall slaying, had been captured with Morton[4], would be returned alive to Lincoln. Although Regulator captain Dick Brewer admitted he would have preferred to kill the men, he gave the two his assurance they would be safely transported to Lincoln. However, other members of the Regulators insisted on doing away with their prisoners. Their efforts were resisted, however, by one of their own, William McCloskey, who was a friend of Morton.
[edit] Blackwater Massacre

On March 9, 1878, the third day of the journey back to Lincoln, in the Capitan foothills along the Blackwater Creek, McCloskey, Morton, and Baker were all killed. The Regulators claimed that Morton had murdered McCloskey, then tried to escape with Baker, forcing them to kill their two prisoners. Few believed the story, finding the idea that Morton would have killed his only friend in the group implausible.[5] The fact that the bodies of Morton and Baker each bore eleven bullet holes, one for each Regulator, reaffirmed suspicions that they had been deliberately murdered by their captors, and that McCloskey had lost his life for opposing it.[6] However, other evidence seems to directly contradict Utley's assertion and says that there were ten bullets in Morton and five in Baker.[7] Coincidentally, on that same day Tunstall's other two killers, Tom Hill and Jesse Evans, were also brought to justice while trying to rob a sheep drover near Tularosa, New Mexico. In the gun battle that ensued when they were discovered, Hill was killed and Evans severely wounded. While Evans was in Fort Stanton for medical treatment, he was arrested on an old federal warrant for stealing stock from an Indian reservation.[citation needed]
[edit] Killing of William Brady

Sheriff Brady requested assistance from the Territorial Attorney General, Thomas Benton Catron, to put down this "anarchy". Catron in turn passed the buck to Territorial Governor Samuel B. Axtell, who issued a decree of flimsy legality. He decreed that Justice of the Peace John Wilson had been illegally appointed by the Lincoln County Commissioners. Wilson was also the legal authority who had deputized** the Regulators and issued the warrants for Tunstall's murderers. Axtell's decree caused all of the Regulators prior legal actions to now be illegal.[8]

On April 1, 1878, Regulators Jim French, Frank McNab, John Middleton, Fred Waite, Henry Brown and Billy the Kid ambushed Sheriff William J. Brady and his deputies on the main street of Lincoln. Brady died of at least a dozen gunshot wounds, and Deputy George W. Hindman was also fatally wounded. Once the shooting ended, McCarty and French broke cover and dashed to Sheriff Brady's body, possibly to get his arrest warrant for Alexander McSween or to recover McCarty's rifle which Brady had kept from a prior arrest. A surviving deputy, Billy Matthews, wounded both men with a rifle bullet that passed through each of them. French's wound was so severe that he could not ride and had to be temporarily harbored by Sam Corbet in a crawlspace in Corbet's house.
[edit] Gunfight at Blazer's Mill
George W. Coe, survivor of the Blazer's Mill fight, in 1934.

Just three days after the murders of Brady and Hindman, the Regulators headed southwest from the immediate area around Lincoln, ending up at Blazer's Mills, a sawmill and trading post that supplied beef to the Mescalero Apaches. Here, they blundered into rancher Buckshot Roberts, whose name was on their arrest warrant as one of Tunstall's murderers. In the ensuing gunfight, known as the Gunfight at Blazer's Mill, Roberts was mortally wounded, but not before killing Brewer and wounding John Middleton, Doc Scurlock, and George Coe, along with shooting Charlie Bowdre in the gunbelt, and grazing McCarty, the bullet not even breaking the skin.[citation needed]
[edit] Gunfight at Fritz's Ranch

After Brewer's death, Frank McNab was elected captain of the Regulators. On April 29, 1878, a posse including the Jesse Evans Gang and the Seven Rivers Warriors, under the direction of Sheriff Peppin, engaged Regulators McNab, Ab Saunders, and Frank Coe in a shootout at the Fritz Ranch. McNab was killed in a hail of gunfire, with Saunders being badly wounded, and Frank Coe captured. On April 30, 1878, Seven Rivers members Tom Green, Charles Marshall, Jim Patterson and John Galvin were killed in Lincoln, and although the Regulators were blamed, this was never proven. Frank Coe escaped custody some time after his capture, allegedly with the assistance of Deputy Sheriff Wallace Olinger, who gave Coe a pistol.

What little is known about the morning following McNab's death is that the Regulator known as "iron clad" took up defensive positions in the town of Lincoln, trading shots with Dolan men as well as army cavalrymen. The only casualty was "Dutch Charley" Kruling, a Dolan man wounded by a rifle slug fired by George Coe at a distance of 440 yards (400 m). By shooting at government troops, the Regulators gained a whole new set of enemies. On May 15, the Regulators tracked down and captured Seven Rivers gang member Manuel Segovia, who is believed to have shot McNab. Segovia was shot while allegedly trying to escape. Around the time of Segovia's death, the Regulator "iron clad" gained a new member, a young Texas cowpoke named Tom O'Folliard.[9]
[edit] Battle of Lincoln
A map of Lincoln, New Mexico as it appeared between 1872 and 1881.

Into the summer, the large confrontation between the two forces materialized on the afternoon of July 15, 1878, when the Regulators were surrounded in Lincoln in two different positions; the McSween house and the Ellis store. Facing them were the Dolan/Murphy/Seven Rivers cowboys. In the Ellis store were Scurlock, Bowdre, Middleton, Frank Coe, and several others. About twenty Mexican Regulators, led by Josefita Chavez, were also positioned around town. In the McSween house were Alex McSween and his wife Susan, Billy the Kid, Henry Brown, Jim French, Tom O'Folliard, Jose Chavez y Chavez, George Coe, and a dozen Mexican vaqueros.[citation needed]

Over the next three days, shots and shouts were exchanged but nothing approached an all-out fight. One fatality was one of the McSween defenders, Tom Cullens, killed by a stray bullet. Another was Dolan cowboy Charlie Crawford, shot at a distance of 500 yards (460 m) by Doc Scurlock's father-in-law, Fernando Herrera. Around this time, Henry Brown, George Coe, and Joe Smith slipped out of the McSween house to the Tunstall store, where they chased two Dolan men into an outhouse with rifle fire and forced them to dive into the bottom to escape. The impasse remained until the arrival of United States Army troops under the command of Colonel Nathan Dudley. When these troops pointed cannons at the Ellis store and other positions, Doc Scurlock and his men broke from their positions, as did Josefita Chavez's cowboys, leaving those left in the McSween house to their fate.[citation needed]

On the afternoon of July 19, the house was set afire. As the flames spread and night fell, Susan McSween and the other woman and five children were granted safe passage out of the house while the men inside continued to fight the fire.[10] By 9 p.m., those left inside got set to break out the back door of the burning house. Jim French went out first, followed by Billy the Kid, O'Folliard, and Jose Chavez y Chavez. The Dolan men saw the running men and opened fire, killing Harvey Morris, McSween's law partner. Some troopers moved into the back yard to take those left into custody when a close-order gunfight erupted. Alexander McSween was killed, as was Seven Rivers cowboy Bob Beckwith. Francisco Zamora and Vicente Romero were killed as well, and Yginio Salazar was shot in the back, while three other Mexican Regulators got away in the confusion, to rendezvous with the iron clad members yards away.
[edit] Aftermath

Ultimately, the Lincoln County War accomplished little other than to foster distrust and animosity in the area and to make fugitives out of the surviving Regulators, most notably Billy the Kid. Gradually, his fellow gunmen scattered to their various fates, and he was left with Bowdre, O'Folliard, Dave Rudabaugh, and a few other friends with whom he rustled cattle and committed other crimes. Eventually Pat Garrett and his posse tracked down and killed O'Folliard, Bowdre, and, in July 1881, McCarty. The three men were buried at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.[citation needed]"

Joe

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[> [> Re: Susan McSween ( Female Cattle Barron) / The "Lincoln County War" of 1878. -- High Line Rider, 09:01:18 11/28/11 Mon [1]

Back In The 1960's When I Was In High School (Yes I'm Old)
I Had A Good Friend Named Laura" And I'd Go To Her House Almost Daily.
She Is Related To Sheriff Pat Garret's Grand Mother.
She Showed Me A Very Old Scrap Book Of Pictures And There Was Afew Picture's Of This Old Woman In It. There Were Even 1 or 2 Picture's Of Pat in The Scrap Book.

Passed Down Thru Her Family's History , YES , Pat Did Kill Billy The Kid. (William H.Bonney)

The Movie Young Gun's Made It Seem That Brushy Bill Robert's Was Infact Billy The Kid.
No , I Had It Straight From Her Family's History That Pat In Fact Shot And Killed Billy.

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[> [> [> Re: [ "Billy the Kid" ] . (on: "The History Channel" ) -- Joe H., 14:34:02 11/28/11 Mon [1]

RE: Re: [ "Billy the Kid" ] . (on: "The History Channel" )

& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_War

H.L.R.:
That Brad Meltzer's "Decoded" the other day last week on this same day, 11/26, Saturday night sure was convincing of that "Billy the Kid" lived, because that the old timer had the same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflower_ear s, limp, and most of all: the same color and location of certain specs in the front of his eyes!

But then again, it could have been a duplicate, like that of in the non-fiction book entitled: "Someone Else's Yesterdays: The Confederate General & Connecticut Yankee" (c)2003 by Jeffrey J. Keene who has the battle wounds appear on the same places on his body as that of Confederate General John B. Gordon, of cc: to him with thanks again for the autographed book. Of my last writing in 2006 to him at his e-mail address if you'd like to buy a copy too of: jeff at confederateyankee dot net ; Telephone # 203: 373- _____

Joe

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