Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Partial Autograph Document Signed (missing page 1/2), 8-1/2” x 12”, old tape mends, signed by “Alex(ander) A. McSween” as petitioner in Probate Court, Johnson County, Territory of New Mexico, August 1, 1877. McSween is asking for release of records. Alexander McSween (1843-1878) was a prominent figure during the Lincoln County War of the Old West, and a central character, alongside John Tunstall, in opposing businessmen and gunmen Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan. After he arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico, McSween worked for Murphy-Dolan as an attorney, then left them to work for John Tunstall, with whom he became close friends and by 1876, business partners. On July 15, 1878, when the Regulators were surrounded in Lincoln at the McSween home, along with McSween and his law partner, Harvey Morris. However, a close-order gunfight erupted, and McSween was killed, as was Seven Rivers cowboy Bob Beckwith. With McSween dead, the Lincoln County War was effectively over.
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