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LINCOLN COUNTY WAR

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
LINCOLN COUNTY WAR
Interesting manuscript D.S. 1p. legal folio, Lincoln County, N.M., July 10, 1878 a bond for the O. Roberts estate, in part: "...Know all men...that we David M. Easton, as principal, and John N. Copeland and E. A. Walz as sureties are held and firmly bound unto the Territory of New Mexico in the sum of Four Hundred Dollars, lawful money of the United States...above bounder David M. Easton administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, effects and credits of O. Roberts, deceased...shall faithfully execute the trust...". DAVID M. EASTON, Justice of the Peace, signed warrants to arrest Alexander McSween and others, but resigned and refused to try them when court date approached. Then went to work in the old Dolan store now owned by T. B. Catron. JOHN N. COPELAND was a Sheriff appointed after William Brady was killed by Billy the Kid, thought to have been a Dolanite. Copeland was an Alexander McSween backer leading Gov. Samuel Beach Axtell to remove him from office and appoint Brady's former deputy and pro-James Dolan sympathizer, George Peppin, as Sheriff; and EDGAR WALZ, was sent to Lincoln to attend to the affairs of T. B. Catron, a member of the Santa Fe Ring. Very good.

Estimate: $200 - 300.

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