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On February 18, 1878, John Tunstall was shot and killed, officially while resisting arrest, by Lincoln County Deputies William Morton, Jesse Evans, and Tom Hill. [2]The Lincoln County Regulators, led by Dick Brewer, were formed to bring to justice those involved in the Tunstall's death, and several were killed over the following months, to include the Regulator leader Dick Brewer, and with ...
Richard M. Brewer (February 19, 1850 – April 4, 1878), was an American cowboy and Lincoln County lawman. He was the founding leader of the Regulators , a deputized posse that fought in the Lincoln County War .
Mar. 8—A Lincoln County man has died of plague, the first human case of the disease in New Mexico since 2021, state officials announced Friday. The man, whose identity has not been publicly ...
James Joseph Dolan (May 2, 1848 – February 6, 1898) was a Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party political boss, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, cattle baron, and a key figure in the Lincoln County War, in New Mexico, which launched Billy the Kid to fame.
Arriving in the New Mexico Territory from Texas in 1875, the former cowboy was eventually hired on as a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County, New Mexico. He was part of the posse who gunned down John Tunstall , a local rancher and merchant who was a chief rival of Murphy and Dolan, on February 18, 1878.
Lincoln County is overwhelmingly Republican, voting Democratic in just 3 elections since New Mexico's founding (1912, 1932, 1936). It was one of only three counties in the state to support Barry Goldwater of neighboring Arizona in 1964, which is also the last time a Democrat managed even 40 percent of the county's vote.