Travel to Lincoln, NM with Bob & Wilma

The American Old West Is DEAD!! but if you diligently search in the remote valleys of distant mountains, you may find artifacts of those by-gone days. The village of Lincoln in Lincoln County New Mexico is one of those artifacts.

It is nearly the same and well preserved as it was at the end of the Lincoln County War in 1878. The whole town is a National Historical Landmark, ten  miles square.

The village was first established in the late 1840s by Spanish farmers, who for defense from the Indians built a tower of stone with a very thick door as protection.

Then later in that century, the Lincoln County War was the struggle of two rival factions vying for the military contacts for both the near by fort and the Indian Reservation.

That war climaxed in a five day shootout at the McSween House which was burned but behind which now are two graves.

In 1881, Billy the Kid, who was sentenced to be hung, escaped from the Lincoln County Courthouse, which was serving as a jail,  leaving behind two dead men and bullet holes in the courthouse wall.

For the next 19 years, Lincoln thrived until it lost it's position as county seat and then went to sleep and became the historical gem it is now.  

Photos and story courtesy of Bob & Wilma.

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