Frontier Fighter: The Autobiography of George W. Coe
by George W. Coe
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Pub Date 28 Oct 2016 | Archive Date 4 Nov 2016
Description
“George, I never expect to let up until I kill the last man who helped to kill Tunstall, or die myself in the act.”
Billy the Kid became one of the most notorious outlaws in Wild West history.
The murder of his friend and employer, John Tunstall, led to the brutal Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
Fighting with the Lincoln County Regulators, Billy left a trail of bullet holes and bodies. Towns became battlefields.
George W Coe fought alongside Billy the Kid in the gun smoke of the Lincoln County War.
Frontier Fighter tells the story of Coe’s early life, his acquaintance with Billy the Kid, and his role in the infamous Lincoln County War.
Coe’s early life was far from glamorous and riddled with upheaval.
Separated from his siblings and father, his mother dead, decided to follow in his cousin’s footsteps and emigrated to New Mexico.
Their arrival in Lincoln County came at an unsettled time. Competition was high between the only two general stores in the county. However, newcomers Alexander McSween and John H. Tunstall broke down this monopoly.
It was through Tunstall that Coe met William H. Bonney, otherwise known as Billy the Kid. It was to be a doomed friendship.
At the Gunfight of Blazer’s Mills Coe lost a finger.
By the end of the 1881 he had lost his friend.
Through his private knowledge of Billy the author constructs a history of the outlaw. It is personal history. It is Billy the Kid as George W Coe knew him. It is Billy the young man.
First published in 1934, when Coe was the last survivor of the Lincoln County War, Frontier Fighter is detailed first-hand account of one of the Wild West’s most exciting incidents and the men who fought in it.
George Washington Coe (1856 – 1941) was born in Brighton, in Washington County, Iowa to a Civil War veteran. Coe was a cowboy and gunman during the Lincoln County War, alongside Billy the Kid. After the war, Coe settled down peacefully and became a respected member of the community.
Billy the Kid became one of the most notorious outlaws in Wild West history.
The murder of his friend and employer, John Tunstall, led to the brutal Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
Fighting with the Lincoln County Regulators, Billy left a trail of bullet holes and bodies. Towns became battlefields.
George W Coe fought alongside Billy the Kid in the gun smoke of the Lincoln County War.
Frontier Fighter tells the story of Coe’s early life, his acquaintance with Billy the Kid, and his role in the infamous Lincoln County War.
Coe’s early life was far from glamorous and riddled with upheaval.
Separated from his siblings and father, his mother dead, decided to follow in his cousin’s footsteps and emigrated to New Mexico.
Their arrival in Lincoln County came at an unsettled time. Competition was high between the only two general stores in the county. However, newcomers Alexander McSween and John H. Tunstall broke down this monopoly.
It was through Tunstall that Coe met William H. Bonney, otherwise known as Billy the Kid. It was to be a doomed friendship.
At the Gunfight of Blazer’s Mills Coe lost a finger.
By the end of the 1881 he had lost his friend.
Through his private knowledge of Billy the author constructs a history of the outlaw. It is personal history. It is Billy the Kid as George W Coe knew him. It is Billy the young man.
First published in 1934, when Coe was the last survivor of the Lincoln County War, Frontier Fighter is detailed first-hand account of one of the Wild West’s most exciting incidents and the men who fought in it.
George Washington Coe (1856 – 1941) was born in Brighton, in Washington County, Iowa to a Civil War veteran. Coe was a cowboy and gunman during the Lincoln County War, alongside Billy the Kid. After the war, Coe settled down peacefully and became a respected member of the community.
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