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The occasions of July 19, 1878, marked the start of what became known as the Lincoln County Conflict and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy known as Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the record books. The so-called conflict, a combat for control of the mercantile market of southeastern New Mexico, is one of the very most documented issues in the history of the American West, but it can be an event that up to now has been interpreted through the eye of men. As a woman in a man's storyline, Susan McSween has been basically ignored. This is the first book to place her in a more substantial context. Obviously, the Lincoln County War had not been her finest hour, just her most widely known. For many years afterward, she ran a successful cattle ranch. She viewed New Mexico modernize and become a state. And she resided to share the stories of the anarchistic territorial period often.
