In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War

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2 2 2 introduction 1. Testimony of William Bonney, May 28, 1879, DCOI. There are copies (or partial copies) in MGF; Victor Westphall Collection, NMSRA; and R. M. Barron, ed., Lieutenant Colonel N. A. M. Dudley Court of Inquiry, May-June-July 1879, n.d., (hereafter cited as Barron), NHC. I have at times used all three. Citations are from DCOI except when I used the edited and typed Barron version. The pages in the Barron version were also numbered and will be included. See also Nora Henn, “Was a Piano in the McSween House During the Five-Day Battle?,” Real West 27 (February 1984): 26–29; and Walter Noble Burns, The Saga of Billy the Kid (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1925), 128–29. 2. Testimony of Susan McSween, May 23, 1879, DCOI; Pink Simms to Maurice Garland Fulton, April 18, 1932, box 4, correspondence N–Z, MGF. 3. Testimony of Susan McSween, May 23, 1879, DCOI. 4. Testimony of José Chavez y Chavez, May 29, 1879, and Testimony of William Bonney, May 28, 1879, DCOI. 5. Testimony of William Bonney, May 28, 1879, DCOI; Robert M. Utley, High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 104. 6. Susan McSween to J. P. Tunstall, July 25, 1878, series VI, subseries CC, RNM. 7. Handwritten notes, July 6, 1926, box 1, folder 1, MBP. 8. Susan Armitage, “Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision,” The Western Historical Quarterly 1, no. 4 (October 1985): 391. 9. Kathleen P. Chamberlain, “In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War,” Montana, the Magazine of Western History 55, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 37. notes n o t e s t o pA g e s 6 – 8 S 2 2 3 Chapter One 1. Susannah is spelled various ways. I opted to use the spelling in U.S. Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Tyrone Township, Adams County, PA (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office). See also Gary Clayton Anderson and Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Power and Promise: The Changing American West (New York: Longman, 2007), 92. 2. Tax List, Peter Hummert [sic], 1844, Tyrone Township, Townships and Tax and Land Records, HFF. The tax records for that year show that Peter Hummer’s farm was one hundred acres. Frederick E. Hoxie, Encyclopedia of North American Indians (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 298–99. 3. Alice B. Kehoe, North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992), 248–49. 4. Norman K. Risjord, “William Penn,” in American Portraits: Biographies in United States History, ed. Stephen G. Weisner and William F. Hartford (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998), 1:56; Edward B. Spangler, Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzar, and George Spangler, Who Settled in York County, Pennsylvania Respectively in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 (York, PA: York Daily Publishing, 1896), 13. 5. Spangler, Annals, 15–16. 6. CarlottaBacaBrent,interviewwithFrancisE.Totty,December6,1937,folder212, WPA; Mary Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 19; Notes on Alex A. McSween, file 47, PJR. When I used this collection, it was located in the Lincoln Courthouse Museum in Lincoln, NM, but like nearly all the Lincoln County files, it was subsequently moved to the Lincoln Heritage Trust or to the Lincoln County Historical Society. 7. Spangler, Annals, 6–7, 14. 8. Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation: Volume One to 1877, 7th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 93; Spangler, Annals, 65. 9. Martin Kitchen, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 118–22; Richard K. MacMaster, Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America, 1683– 1790, vol. 1 (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1985), 77. 10. Martin Grove Brumbaugh, A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America (Mount Morris, IL: Brethren Publishing, 1899), xiv, 53; Carl F. Bowman, Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a “Peculiar People” (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 4. 11. Bowman, Brethren Society, 19. 12. Ibid., 81. 13. “Overview of Brethren History: Brethren Expansion and Development (1785– 1880),” accessed June 2002, http: //www.brethrenchurch.org/bhexp.html. 14. Charles H. Glatfelter (executive director, ACHS), personal communication with 2 2 4 S n o t e s t o pA g e s 9 – 1 0 author, June...