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Lincoln County war, 2 sides

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Lincoln County war, 2 sides

August 20, 2026

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George W. Coe, an early settler in the Hondo Valley near Glencoe, New Mexico, recounted his version of the events that helped ignite the Lincoln County War, one of the bloodiest range conflicts in American history. Coe and his cousin Frank Coe had come from Missouri in 1874, bringing farming…

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