No: 4089
Access Public
Visible Yes
Name Tunstall Murder SiteType 1 Place Historic
Type 2 Location GlencoeRegion NM
Country USA
Phone Web www.angelfire.com/nm/boybanditking/pageTunstallCanyon.html
Video Month Rate High
Plan N
Done Y
Comments Where a posse sent by the Lincoln County sheriff, representing the Murphy-Dolan faction, murdered merchant-rancher John Tunstall to kick off the Lincoln County War. The War grew out of a commercial rivalry to supply nearby Fort Stanton and the Mescalero reservation. Billy "The Kid" Bonney, an employee and friend of Tunstall watched the murder from a distance. Billy joined a group known as the Regulators to fight the Murphy-Dolan faction.