John tunstall biography
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John Tunstall&#;(6 March – 18 February ) was an English rancher and merchant who lived in Lincoln,&#;New Mexico during the Wild West. He was the first man killed during the Lincoln County War.
Biography[]
John Tunstall was born in London, England in to an upper-middle-class family. In , he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to work at Turner, Beeton & Tunstall, a store in which his father was a partner, and he left for the American West in February He met lawyer Alexander McSween in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and McSween advised Tunstall to move to Lincoln County, which was being rapidly settled. He bought a ranch on the Rio Feliz and went into business as a cattleman, setting up a mercantile store and bank in the town of Lincoln. Tunstall offered decent prices and reasonable dealings at his store, threatening the general store monopoly of Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan, who had Sheriff William J. Brady in their pocket.&#;On 18 February , Sheriff Brady sent a posse to hunt down Tunstall on Murphy's orders. Tunstall and his young cowboys were riding back to their ranch from the town, and Tunstall gave his cowboys permission to fool around and ride ahead of his carriage. Tunstall, now by himself, was beset by the posse of lawmen, who proceeded to gun him down. Tu
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John Tunstall (usher)
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John Tunstall
English-American rancher (–)
This article is about the English-American rancher. For the servant and gentleman-usher to Anne of Denmark, see John Tunstall (usher). For the member of parliament, see Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency).
John Henry Tunstall (6 March &#; 18 February ) was an English-born rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. He competed with the Irish Catholic merchants, lawmen, and politicians who ran the town of Lincoln and the county.[citation needed] Tunstall, a member of the Republican Party, hoped to unseat the Irish and make a fortune as the county's new boss.[citation needed] He was the first man killed in the Lincoln County War, an economic and political conflict that resulted in armed warfare between rival gangs of cowboys and the ranchers, lawmen, and politicians who issued the orders.
Early life and education
[edit]Tunstall was born in in Hackney, London. Although Tunstall has often been depicted in fiction as a member of the English nobility, his family were in reality upper middle-class. Furthermore, Tunstall's father "worked in trade", with business interests in both Canada and in the United Kingdom, and would, for this reason, have been looked down on and excluded fr