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McSween and house
A large confrontation between the two forces took place on the afternoon of July 15, 1878, when the Regulators were surrounded in Lincoln in two different positions ; the McSween house and the Ellis store.
Tom Cullens, one of the McSween house defenders, was killed by a stray bullet.
Around this time, Henry Brown, George Coe, and Joe Smith slipped out of the McSween house to the Tunstall store, where they chased two Dolan men into an outhouse with rifle fire and forced them to dive into the bottom to escape.
When these troops pointed cannons at the Ellis store and other positions, Doc Scurlock and his men broke from their positions, as did Chavez's cowboys, leaving those left in the McSween house to their fate.
As the flames spread and night fell, Susan McSween and the other woman and five children were granted safe passage out of the house, while the men inside continued to fight the fire.
Fourteen people lived at the house, including McSween and his wife, as well as twelve cowboys.
Chavez y Chavez allegedly testified, alongside Billy the Kid, in court to try to implicate the Army in connection to the burning of the McSween house and subsequent deaths that occurred during the fires.
When the Regulators were trapped in Lincoln in July 1878, French was trapped along with McSween and Billy the Kid in the burning McSween house.
" When the house was finally set afire on July 19, French and Billy the Kid led the Regulators out the rear door and escaped while several of their friends, including McSween, were gunned down in the backyard.

McSween and were
Jacobsen doubts whether McCarty and McSween were acquainted at the time of Brady's death.
Under indictment for the Brady killing, McCarty and the other Regulators spent the next several months in hiding and were trapped, along with McSween, in McSween's home in Lincoln on July 15, by members of the House and some of Brady's men.
Early on, Ralph Harvey of Case Western Reserve University and Harry McSween of University of Tennessee reported evidence that the carbonate globules found in the meteorite were formed at high temperature ( above 650 ° C ) by volcanic or impact processes on Mars.
" Tunstall and McSween were supported by John Chisum, the owner of a large ranch and over 100, 000 head of cattle.

McSween and Alex
Billy, Doc Scurlock ( Kiefer Sutherland ), Jose Chavez y Chavez ( Lou Diamond Phillips ), Richard M. " Dick " Brewer ( Charlie Sheen ), " Dirty " Steve Stephens ( Dermot Mulroney ), and Charlie Bowdre ( Casey Siemaszko ), consult their lawyer friend Alex McSween ( Terry O ' Quinn ), who manages to get them deputized and given warrants for the arrest of Murphy's murderous henchmen.
* Young Guns ( 1988 ) ... as Alex McSween
He also brings in a lawyer, Alex McSween ( Andrew Prine ), whose principles lead him to switch sides and seek work with Chisum and Tunstall.

McSween and Susan
Susan McSween, the widow of Alexander McSween, came to McCarty's defense in the years of his notoriety, saying:
* Sharon Thomas as Susan McSween

McSween and Billy
The feud became famous because of the participation of a number of notable figures of the Old West, including Billy the Kid, sheriffs William Brady and Pat Garrett, cattle rancher John Chisum, lawyer and businessman Alexander McSween, and the general store monopolist Lawrence Murphy.
After the shooting of Sheriff William Brady on April 1, 1878 in Lincoln ( when French and five partners riddled Brady and a deputy with rifle slugs ), he and Billy the Kid broke from cover and ran to Brady's body, ostensibly to get his arrest warrant for Alexander McSween.

McSween and Brown
Sometimes, he would ally himself with a corrupt Dallas Police detective, Harry McSween ( James E. Brown ), in order to get what he wanted.

McSween and French
McCarty and French broke cover and dashed to Brady's body, possibly to get his arrest warrant for McSween or to recover McCarty's rifle, which Brady had kept from a prior arrest.

McSween and O
* Terry O ' Quinn as Alexander McSween

McSween and George
McSween had been elected after the death of George Long.

McSween and .
* The Values-Based Safety Process: Improving Your Safety Culture with Behavior-Based Safety, Terry E. McSween.
The Warpath crossed the Pigeon River at a point approximately east of the McSween Memorial Bridge ( US-321 ), in an area where the river is normally low enough to walk across.
Late in 1877, McCarty, along with Brewer, Bowdre, Scurlock, the Coes and the Saunders, was hired as a cattle guard by John Tunstall, an English cattle rancher, banker and merchant, and his partner, Alexander McSween, a prominent lawyer.
A conflict known today as the Lincoln County War had erupted between the established town merchants, Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan, and competing business interests headed by Tunstall and McSween.
Before the arrival of Tunstall and McSween, Murphy and Dolan presided over a monopoly of Lincoln County's cattle and merchant trade ; their far-reaching operation was known locally as " The House ", after a large mansion in Lincoln that served as Murphy and Dolan's headquarters.
McSween, who abhorred violence, took steps to punish Tunstall's murderers through legal means ; he obtained warrants for their arrests from the local justice of the peace, John B. Wilson.
The governor, accompanied by James Dolan and associate John Riley, proved hostile to the faction now headed by McSween.
The connection between McSween and the Regulators was ambiguous, however.
McCarty was loyal to the memory of Tunstall, though not necessarily to McSween.
According to a contemporary newspaper account, the Regulators disclaimed " all connection or sympathy with McSween and his affairs " and expressed their sole desire was to track down Tunstall's murderers.
The posse shot McSween when he escaped the fire, essentially marking the end of the Lincoln County War.
Young newcomers to the county, English-born John Tunstall and his business partner Alexander McSween, with backing from established cattleman John Chisum, opened a competing store in 1876.
Further killings continued unabated for several months, climaxing in the Battle of Lincoln, a four-day gunfight and siege that resulted in the death of McSween and the scattering of the Regulators.
In November 1876, a wealthy Englishman named John Tunstall arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico where he intended to develop a cattle ranch, store, and bank in partnership with the young attorney Alexander McSween and cattleman John Chisum.
In February 1878, in a court case that was eventually dismissed, they obtained a court order to seize all of McSween's assets, but mistakenly included all of Tunstall's assets with those of McSween.

house and were
His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.
Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.
Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.
She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.
Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).
It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.
She lived in an ultra-modern house whose decoration, appointments, paint, and even pets were chosen to complement her coloring ; ;
When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.
Telephone wires from Louis Dufresne's house in East Manchester to the Dufresne lumber job near Bourn Pond were up about 1895.
Another reported that his comrades were `` in fine spirits pitching around like a blind dog in a meat house ''.
We got to one house where there were five secessionists.
Everyone somehow manages to overlook completely the fact that, as far as we know, there were exactly two people in and about the house at the time of both murders: Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan.
There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.
Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??
He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;
The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.
Gladden's wife and two of his sons, John, 17, and Jim, 13, were inside the house.
Hengesbach has been living in Grand Ledge since his house and barn were burned down after his release in 1958.
They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.
You were practicing what you were coached in the house of the Guru.

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