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Pat Garret
Pat Garrett is presented with$1,300, raised from the citizens of Dona Ana County, and $600, from Santa Fe County -
ambush in lincoln county
On the morning of April 1 in Lincoln, six of the Regulators, the Kid among them, ambushed Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady and four deputies. Brady and a deputy were killed. While retrieving the Winchester that Brady had taken from him weeks earlier amid the gunfire, the Kid was wounded in the thigh, but limped away and him, then eluded his pursuers. -
the kid
Three days later, when the Regulators gunned down another Dolan sympathizer at Blazer's Mill, the Kid, although grazed in the arm, rushed his armed adversary after shrewdly counting his opponent's expended rounds until he knew his adversary was out of ammunition -
McSween
When McSween and four supporters were shot and killed as McSween's lavishly furnished adobe home, beseiged for five days by 40 of Dolan's armed men, burned to the ground in Lincoln on July 19, the war ended. But not before the Kid led some of his pals to safety on a daring last-minute escape from the inferno at dusk, guns blazing, amid a hail of gunfire. -
Tunstall motives become clear
Tunstall's motives became clear when he opened a competing mercantile in late 1877. Tensions mounted. Kindled by a winter-long legal dispute between Dolan and McSween over the proceeds of a $10,000 life insurance policy, tempers finally flared
