so yesterday i was having trouble with
my sd card on one of the gopros i was
using it's the main gopro this one where
i'm talking to
um and all of a sudden when i get to
lincoln
the sd card just craps out it just says
sd card air so i wasn't able to use it
so luckily i had you know backups uh or
backup sd card so i switched it out and
um when i checked this morning
for that sd card that was giving me an
error nothing was on there
so basically all the footage that i
recorded
up until lincoln was just all gone so it
really sucks
but
you know at least i got the lincoln
footage so that was fine but i lost all
the footage where i was talking about
lincoln county and billy the kid and
some other things i probably forgot
but i'm going to be trying to remember
what i talked about
um so i can lead up to this lincoln
county video so
lately i've been really obsessed with
billy the kid
it started when my friend henry told me
about him and how um
las cruces has some sites where you
could see some billy the kids sites
and then he also mentioned
that young guns is based on
billy the kids story
and i just was so
fascinated by that because my mom is
actually
really in love with the young guns movie
anything old west western movies she
absolutely loves actually both my
parents but
my mom especially i remember her loving
them because she would watch any show or
movie that she loved she would watch on
repeat over and over so i remember young
guns was one of them and she would just
watch it multiple times so i've seen
some of it but i don't i never knew the
basis of the story i never followed it i
never watched the whole movie i only
seen like bits and pieces of it so when
i learned that young guns was based on
billy the kid
uh me and candy watched it together we
watched both of them we watched the
young guns one and then we were you know
really interested in watching young guns
too to see the continuation of billy the
kid's story so that gave me
more of billy the kids story but i still
wanted to learn more because i don't
know i think the movie a lot of the
facts are true but there are some that
are inconsistent or you know doesn't
match what to what truly happened
so i started listening to a podcast
about it there was like a series where
they talked about billy the kids history
and how he became a folklore hero
and
from there i was hooked and i was just
all about billy the kid so as i
mentioned in las cruces where i stopped
by there are a couple of sites that's
based on billy the kid if you go to
macia it's a little town plaza and they
have a restaurant and a gift shop and
both of those places are where billy the
kid stopped by the restaurant i think
they just said that he ate there and
then he
was captured there perhaps and then
taken to the jail across the street
which is now the gift shop
and that was built in the 1850s so all
of this
um like the lincoln county war and the
time where he was well known
was around the
1850s to the 1880s billy the kid was
very young
you know when he was with the regulators
he was probably only like 17 18 by the
time he was killed he was only 21 years
old so before you go to lincoln there is
this visitor center that you can go to
it's called billy the kids scenic
byway visitor center it's such a
mouthful
but from las cruces it's two hours away
so
i'm driving in january and
i didn't realize that
lincoln county was up in the hills up in
the mountains because it was at 7 000
feet of elevation
and when i was driving to the visitor
center i noticed snow on the roads to
the side it wasn't on the roads really
there was some maybe like dust or salt
but the roads were pretty clear but i
did notice snow to the size of the road
and like on some cars and i was like
thank goodness it wasn't snowing because
i was not prepared for that so that's
just to keep a note that it is at a
higher elevation so i stopped by the
visitor center and um i wanted to use
the restroom there but
apparently their restrooms have been
closed for over a year they're public
restrooms because they don't have help
to help sanitize it so i just checked it
out real quick it's very small
but you kind of get an overview of what
the scenic byway is so it's 80 miles
of scenic views and sites that you can
check out and a lot of you know one of
them is lincoln county
so you'll get some information on billy
the kid
and lincoln county in general and some
other things i also took a picture with
kuma with this billy the kid cut out in
front of the visitor center but if you
want to use the restroom
there is a walmart down the road about a
mile away so i just used that restroom
and that worked out fine and so once i
got to lincoln county which is about 30
minutes away from the visitor center i
stopped by the lincoln county visitor
center slash museum it's seven dollars
to
to go inside the museums and i'm glad i
paid that because the first museum was
okay it gives you like a general
overview of lincoln county and billy the
kid of course but i already kind of knew
all that so
kind of just browse around a bit took
some pictures
and i moved on to the rest of the area
which is really cool it was so neat to
kind of walk and build the kids
footsteps
and
see where all these sites were after
learning all about it okay so i did a
little bit of walking around with kuma
um and i was gonna record on the gopro
but of course my sd card craps out and i
get a sd card error so i just kind of
walked down a little bit took some
pictures and now i'm gonna
drive and kind of stop by maybe the
halfway point and take some video and
show you
this historic site so it is very
walkable
it's only a quarter of a mile so you can
do it really easily but a lot of people
what i've been seeing is they've just
been stopping on the side of the road
and then taking pictures and then moving
on interesting thing is like a lot some
of these properties are privately owned
so people actually live here
so this is the toriel on one of
lincoln's earliest structures it was
built in the 1850s and the thick vault
protected the spanish americans
and the lincoln county war okay so right
here is a la placita gift shop
and it's closed so a lot of these places
are closed i'm not sure if it's because
of pandemic or if they're just taking a
break or i saw one of the museums the
tunstall store
which i would have loved to go in there
but that is being uh reconstructed i saw
a lot of construction going on inside so
then maybe they're like kind of
restoring the area and doing something
with it okay i'm gonna stop right here
i'm gonna stop here and kind of walk out
because this is the tunzel store museum
and i thought it was really interesting
all right so this is the tunstall store
museum but it is closed so i cannot go
in
uh there is a u.s post office right next
to it and it's for real like i just saw
a lady pick up some mail there very tiny
and very cute this is
the store started by
jh tunstall and
mcsween the lawyer in 1877 it was the
focal point in the lincoln county war in
which both partners were slain
then right across the street that's the
dolan house again that is closed
and that old home was built in 1888 by
jj dolan who took part in the lincoln
county war i just parked on the side
right there
there's like really no other cars here
and the few other cars that i've seen
are owned by people that live here this
is the site of the mcswain home where
that famous five-day
lincoln county war happened and this is
where billy the kid was involved and him
and the regulators
were here somewhere there was a house
and it got burned down in the war that's
the site of the mcswain home opening a
law office in lincoln 1875. i like big
swing we built an old adobe into a 10
room house wow that's huge and then on
july 19 1878 pepin's posse fired it to
oust inmates this is where it happened
of course it doesn't exist because it
burned down next to it here
this is fresca's house
it's a butcher shop or it was a butcher
shop 1880 to 1892. oh next to this is
the state offices so
people working in there but let's see
what this says this is the thomas w
watson house portions of this building
were constructed in the 1880s it served
as dr watson's residence and drug store
from 1903 to 1920. and then over there
is a little nature trail actually they
have a couple nature trails one by the
visitor center there's another one here
looks pretty nice and that's a brewery
over there but it's closed and then over
here is
dr woods annex
built 1886 side of lincoln independent
newspaper winery soap factory movie
theater and boarding house so yeah kuma
was um walking around with me and taking
pictures and she's already tired
so i'm gonna go down a little bit more
and then
check out the let's see
the historic lincoln county courthouse
because that was
um that was originally constructed in
1874
that was the general store and
headquarters for lg murphy and that was
the enemy of tunstall and the regulators
so it should just be
right down the road here
oh this is it this is the old lincoln
county courthouse all right this is the
wartley hotel dining room site of old
berkley hotel here robert m allenger at
table noon april 28 1881 heard shooting
from courthouse rushed to his death at
hands of william h bonnie
it's a nice house
this is a cute
little cafe coffee shop
coffee bar and local art
and
that across the street
is the old lincoln county house
also murphy's general store or
headquarters
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well that was pretty neat i really
enjoyed uh going through that little
town and kind of walking billy the kids
footsteps and i love learning about
history and if i could relive it a
little bit and see the old sites i think
it makes it even more awesome and the
last museum that i went to that was the
murphy store that was like my favorite
one to go to because you know a lot of
people that you hear about like murphy
and pat garrett and billy the kid and
the two sheriffs that he killed i think
allenger was one of them
that all happened there so
it was just so neat to kind of
see it all
for real you know because i've seen the
i've seen young guns i've i've heard
podcasts i've read about it and to
actually see it and you know in its
original building was the coolest thing
i highly recommend
stopping by that last museum because it
is so awesome to see its original floors
and they have some original artifacts as
well like they have a safe because so
how it was structured was
during billy the kids time it was a
general store murphy's general store on
the bottom and then right next to it was
like a parlor a billiards room
and then to the left were
um murphy's offices and then upstairs
during pat garrett's time when he was a
sheriff since they didn't have a proper
jailhouse at the time
they just put billy the kid upstairs
when they caught him so pat garrett had
an office up there and his room was
across from the room
billy the kid was staying out but since
pat garrett had to leave for something
they still don't know what exactly he
had to leave north for
but he appointed two officers or two
sheriffs to watch over billy the kid and
billy the kid escaped and killed the two
sheriffs as you're going around the
building you'll see signs of like what
happened where so that was really neat
so again you could continue the scenic
byway i think that was the significant
thing
regarding billy the kid
after that i think it's fort stanton
which has something to do with billy the
kids history as well
but um i'm not sure i feel like the kid
actually went to fort stanton i know
other people did that he was
uh associated with so you can do you
know this entire scenic byway
uh drive but i just i don't have time to
do it because it's like 80 miles i wish
i had time but i don't maybe i'll come
back and do it another day and you can
also go to fort sumner to see his burial
site or where his tombstone is because
that is where he got caught and killed
by pat garrett but i think lincoln
county
was
the most awesome place to kind of
get the whole history of what billy the
kid was about and you know also the
lincoln county war um the regulators
the murphy and co i mean all that you'll
learn that all there so i hope you
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