Robert M. Utley - High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
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1987 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Fifth paperbound printing 1998
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Utley, Robert Marshall, 1929 High noon in Lincoln. Bibliography p. Includes index. 1. Lincoln County (N.M.)History. 2. ViolenceNew MexicoLincoln CountyHistory 19th Century. I. Title. F802.L7U86 1987 987.9'6404 87-10864 ISBN 0-8263-0981-X (cloth) ISBN 0-8263-1201-2 (paperback)
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Page v
For Melody
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Contents
Maps and Illustrations
following p. 50
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1 The Englishman and the Scotsman
1
2 Heritage of Violence
10
3 Rings within Rings
24
4 The Opening Round
38
5 The Regulators
51
6 Judicial Interlude
66
7 Dad Peppin
79
8 The Five-Day Battle
92
9 The Wrestlers
112
10 Ben-Hur Wallace
118
11 Colonel Dudley
125
12 The Governor and the Kid
137
13 War's End
147
14 Respectability
160
15 Post-Mortem
171
Abbreviations
181
Notes
182
Sources
237
Index
249
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Preface A War Without Heroes
High Noon evokes images of a classic western facedown and shootout. That is what happened in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1878 and 1879 as John Henry Tunstall and Alexander McSween engaged in a facedown and shootout with James J. Dolan and John H. Riley.
Unlike the High Noon in which Gary Cooper is the lone hero, the Lincoln County High Noon boasts not a single hero. Readers who must have a sympathetic character to identify with may put this book down now.
I did not set out to write a book without heroes. But historians must take history as they find it, and I found no heroes. I did not expect Billy the Kid to be a hero. Nor did Murphy, Dolan, and Riley seem likely candidates. I was surprised to find John Henry Tunstall and Alex and Sue McSween so lacking in appeal. But when I discovered that Lew Wallace, whatever his military and literary merits, made so few constructive contributions to resolving the troubles in Lincoln County, I knew that I would find no one to stir the sympathetic imagination of me or of my readers. Truly, the Lincoln County War was a war without heroes.
Yet it was a significant war. It captured the thought and behavior of a range of frontier personalities. It dramatized economic forces that underlay most frontier conflicts. It demonstrated the intensity and the varieties of frontier crime and violence. And it
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gave the world Billy the Kid, a figure of towering significance, not for the part he played in the war, but for the standing he achieved in American folklore.
Heroes are appealing, but they are not essential to historical consequence.
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Acknowledgments
This book owes a large debt to many people. Three friends and fellow historians, in particular, deserve the most generous thanks. All are first-rate authorities on the Lincoln County War.
Donald R. Lavash, recently retired as historian at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, pointed the way to key sources, loaned to me indispensable documents and microfilms from his personal collection (including the Lew Wallace Papers and the Dudley Court Record), and in long sessions over coffee and pastries at the Swiss Bakery shared his insights and helped me sharpen my own thinking. Don's researches have recently borne fruit in a biography of Sheriff William Brady.
Harwood P. Hinton, editor of Arizona and the West and biographer of John Chisum, played a role similar to Lavash. We spent much time together, both at the Haley History Center in Midland, Texas, and at the University of Arizona Library, gnawing at the imponderables of the Lincoln County War and, on the side, sampling the delights of the local Dairy Queens. Like Lavash, Hinton generously shared with me the results of his own research.
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