The Lincoln County War Analysis
The Lincoln county war took place in New Mexico between 1878 and dragged on through 1881. It was all started between John Tunstall who owns and manages a large ranch operation in Lincoln County. Two Irish men, J.J Dolan and L.G Murphy operated the general store in town, which was named the house. Through the house the access to lucrative beef contracts with the government was controlled.
The bigger ranchers such as John Chisum and Alex McSween didn’t like the thought of merchants controlling the beef market so the began to question the house. It wasn’t long before Tunstall realized that he agreed with Chisum and McSween, which lead him to become the leader of the anti-house forces and then buying a general store of his own. They fought for …show more content…
But of course he refused to turn over any of his horses so the Lincoln County sheriff that was ironically controlled by the House were sent out to take the horses. The boys Tunstall had hired were out working the ranch when the sheriff and his crew showed up and they well out numbered the regulators so they got out of there but not before they watched Tunstall ride up to the men to try to run them off of his …show more content…
It changed the entire way New Mexico was governed and controlled. It took until president Hayes had to get involved to realize how much corruption and distrust there was in the county of Lincoln. Sheriffs were choosing sides even colonels in the army sent to arrest most of them only chose one sides men to arrest. This war helped America see that law is needed to ensure that disputes such as this one don't get to far out of hand and create a much bigger problem than one that is needed. If there was no law this kind of thing would happen much more because nobody would have the power to stop it. The war had much more than just Tunstalls boys against Murphys men but the biggest display of the lack of law was between them. They were unstoppable anyone that stood in there way was usually killed in trying to do so many civilians died in the process because they had been forced to fight even tho most of them didn't know what for they had no choice but to star in the action. therefore if the law was not introduced into the lincoln county war it may have gone on way longer than it did many more lives could have been
The bigger ranchers such as John Chisum and Alex McSween didn’t like the thought of merchants controlling the beef market so the began to question the house. It wasn’t long before Tunstall realized that he agreed with Chisum and McSween, which lead him to become the leader of the anti-house forces and then buying a general store of his own. They fought for …show more content…
But of course he refused to turn over any of his horses so the Lincoln County sheriff that was ironically controlled by the House were sent out to take the horses. The boys Tunstall had hired were out working the ranch when the sheriff and his crew showed up and they well out numbered the regulators so they got out of there but not before they watched Tunstall ride up to the men to try to run them off of his …show more content…
It changed the entire way New Mexico was governed and controlled. It took until president Hayes had to get involved to realize how much corruption and distrust there was in the county of Lincoln. Sheriffs were choosing sides even colonels in the army sent to arrest most of them only chose one sides men to arrest. This war helped America see that law is needed to ensure that disputes such as this one don't get to far out of hand and create a much bigger problem than one that is needed. If there was no law this kind of thing would happen much more because nobody would have the power to stop it. The war had much more than just Tunstalls boys against Murphys men but the biggest display of the lack of law was between them. They were unstoppable anyone that stood in there way was usually killed in trying to do so many civilians died in the process because they had been forced to fight even tho most of them didn't know what for they had no choice but to star in the action. therefore if the law was not introduced into the lincoln county war it may have gone on way longer than it did many more lives could have been