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John Henry Tunstall (6 March 1853 – 18 February 1878) was an English-born rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. He competed with the Irish Catholic merchants, lawmen, and politicians who ran the town of Lincoln and the county.
The Torreon, where Murphy's sharpshooters were stationed. During November 1876, a wealthy Englishman named John Tunstall arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where he intended to develop a cattle ranch, store, and bank in partnership with the young attorney Alexander McSween and cattleman John Chisum.
The posse had ostensibly been chasing Tunstall to attach, i.e., seize by legal authority, some stock Tunstall and his men were driving from Tunstall's ranch on the Feliz River to Lincoln, but the posse's real motivation may have been to eliminate John Tunstall as an economic threat to businessmen James Dolan and L.G. Murphy, who allegedly had ...
Terence Stamp as John Tunstall, an English rancher who employed the ranch hands who turned Regulators upon his death. Jack Palance as Lawrence Murphy , an Irish rancher connected to the House, Terry O'Quinn as Alexander McSween , a lawyer who opposed the House and deputized the Regulators.
Brown joined Billy the Kid and cowboys as "The Regulators", working John Tunstall's Rio Feliz Ranch. On April 1, 1878, Brown, Billy the Kid, Jim French , Frank McNab , John Middleton and Fred Waite ambushed and murdered Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady , who was indirectly responsible for the death of Tunstall.
Dolan challenged Tunstall to a gunfight, but the latter refused, as he preferred to let others do the killing for him. [citation needed] Preparing for war, Dolan hired members of the Seven Rivers Warriors, the Jesse Evans Gang and the John Kinney Gang. In response, Tunstall and McSween formed a gang of their own called the Lincoln County ...
McSween, although a non-participant, was the former partner of John Tunstall, and, along with John Chisum, had organized and financially supported the Regulators.On July 15, 1878, McSween returned to Lincoln with about 41 additional supporters, ten of whom he put up in his home; while the rest found beds throughout the town. [9]
Scurlock served as a deputy sheriff under Sheriff John Copeland, who was a McSween partisan and replaced Sheriff Brady. On May 14, 1878, he led a posse of 18 to 20 men, which included Billy the Kid , Bowdre, George Coe, Brown, and Scroggins, to the Dolan-Riley cattle ranch, ostensibly in search of those implicated in the killing of MacNab and ...