The Kid and Me Contributor(s): Turner, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496206894 ISBN-13: 9781496206893 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General |
Dewey: 813.6 |
LCCN: 2017054273 |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.59 lbs) 210 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In The Kid and Me Frederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln County War in what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals in the county led by John Tunstall and Alexander McSween. When Tunstall and McSween opened a dry-goods store in 1876 in a direct challenge to Dolan's monopoly on the dry-goods business, trouble was inevitable. Both the Dolan and the Tunstall-McSween factions garnered supporters, including lawmen, criminal gangs, and ranch hands. The ambush and murder of Tunstall by a local sheriff's posse loyal to Dolan sparked a wave of revenge killings and bloody reprisals in which Billy the Kid--one of Tunstall's ranch hands--played a prominent role. |