![]() And for that, they turned to Irishman James Dolan.īut in 1876, a competing rancher named John Tunstall moved in. The federal government, which had recently forced the Navajo and Apache people onto reservations, needed cattle to feed the reservations and the U.S. But in the lawless West, vigilantes held all the power. In the 1870s, New Mexico Territory could make or break a man’s fortunes, and beef was as good as gold on the frontier. And it made a household name of Billy the Kid ![]() Instead, it was an all-out gunfight between rival general stores and cattle ranchers. ![]() But the Lincoln County War in New Mexico wasn’t your average war. ![]() The Civil War had barely ended before new fighting broke out on the frontier. Marchand/Bettmann/Getty Images The Lincoln County sheriff bringing Regulators to jail. ![]()
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