Doc Scurlock & the Lincoln County Regulators

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Josiah "Doc" Scurlock was a poet, philosopher, intellectual, and hardened killer long before he met Billy the Kid. His mysterious past in Mexico, rumors of dead men from New Orleans to Texas, penchant for vigilantism, and several close calls with hostile Natives all made Doc a man to be both feared and respected. However, the trials he would face after the Lincoln County War made Scurlock the man his family would remember. Jose Chavez y Chavez was a constable in San Patricio and an ally of the Tunstall McSween faction during the Lincoln County War. Jose was a full participant in the troubles and was present during the Battle of Lincoln, making a getaway from the burning McSween home alongside Billy the Kid. But who was Jose Chavez y Chavez, really? Was he a Navajo, as popularly believed? And how did he become a hired assassin? Also discussed in this episode is Chavez’s encounter with Bob Ford and the other Regulators and friends of Billy the Kid, guys like Henry Newton Brown, George and Frank Coe, Ab Saunders, John Middleton, Billy Wilson, Tom Pickett, and more! I also give my opinion on what really happened there at Fort Sumner on the night of Billy’s alleged death and discuss The Kid’s “body count”. This is a mashup of two previously released episodes on the pals of Billy the Kid. Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Josiah Doc Scurlock had a choice to make.
0:03.0	He could skin on out of the territory while the getting was still good or risk being put back in chains, or worse, gunned down like a damn dog in front of his family.
0:12.0	Not that Doc Scurlock ever shied away from a fight, mind you.
0:15.2	Word had it that he had killed men from New Orleans to Texas, even old Mexico, before making his way up north to work for John Chisholm.
0:21.9	And even then, folks just kept turning up kilt around him.
0:25.1	Be they hostile Apache or feisty stock thieves.
0:28.1	All the same, Doc had a family to worry about now, little ones to feed and protect.
0:32.9	He can no longer afford to ride out reckless as the devil with young Billy Bonnie.
0:36.9	Vengeance be damned.
0:38.7	Matter of fact, at nearly 31 years of age, Doc had just welcomed the son into this world,
0:42.9	his namesake, Josiah Gordon Scurlock Jr. A joyous occasion for any man indeed, but
0:49.2	one nonetheless tinged with bitterness given that just two months prior he and his wife Antonia
0:54.0	had laid
0:54.5	their daughter, Maria Elena, to rest. No, Doc Scurlock was no stranger to bury in the dead,
1:00.6	nor to keeping gravediggers in business. Killing it always come easy to a man like him,
1:05.5	and death just seemed to follow in his wake, even to those whom he loved the most.
1:10.2	Doc thought of Texas once more of a new beginning, a fresh start,
1:13.6	someplace where he could lay down his guns and stop looking over his shoulder.
1:16.6	Of course he would need a grub steak, and a hardened killer long before he ever met Billy the kid.
1:40.0	Born in Alabama, I'll try not to hold that against him.
1:42.7	In the year 1850, Josiah was too young to
1:45.2	fighting the war between the states, but like everybody else at his generation, he nonetheless
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