Doc Scurlock | The Thinking Man's Outlaw

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Josiah "Doc" Scurlock was a poet, philosopher, intellectual, and a hardened killer long before he ever met Billy the Kid. A mysterious past in Mexico, rumors of dead men from New Orleans to Texas, a penchant for vigilantism, and several close calls with the hostile Natives all made Doc a man to be both feared and respected. However, it was the trials he would face after the Lincoln County War that made Scurlock the man his family would remember. Also discussed: J.J. Dolan, John Riley, Billy Campbell, John Kinney & Jesse Evans. Blood on the Saddle: The Life of Doc Scurlock - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DG17FT?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=B084DG17FT&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin 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 Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Billy the Kid ep 1 – https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-orphan/ Billy the Kid ep 2 – https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-prelude-to-war/ Billy the Kid ep 3 – https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-lincoln-county-war/ Billy the Kid ep 4 – https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-desperado/ Billy the Kid ep 5 – https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-quien-es/ 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. He could skin on out of the territory while the
0:04.9	Giddin was still good or risk being put back in chains, or worse, gunned down like a damn dog
0:10.7	in front of his family. Not that Doc Scurlock ever shied away from a fight, mind you. Word added
0:16.0	that he had killed men from New Orleans to Texas, even old Mexico, before making his way up north
0:20.8	to work for John Chisholm. And even Mexico, before making his way up north to work for
0:21.3	John Chisholm. And even then, folks just kept turning up kilt around him, be they hostile
0:26.2	Apache or feisty stock thieves. All the same, Doc had a family to worry about now, little
0:31.7	ones to feed and protect. He can no longer afford to ride out reckless as the devil with
0:36.4	young Billy Bonnie.
0:37.6	Vengeance be damned.
0:39.4	Matter of fact, at nearly 31 years of age, Doc had just welcomed the son into this world,
0:43.8	his namesake, Josiah Gordon Scurlock, Jr.
0:47.5	A joyous occasion for any man indeed, but one nonetheless tinged with bitterness given
0:52.3	the just two months prior he and his wife Antonia had laid their daughter, Marie Elena, to rest.
0:58.1	No, Doc Scurlock was no stranger to bury in the dead, nor to keeping gravediggers in business.
1:04.1	Killing had always come easy to a man like him, and death just seemed to follow in his wake, even to those whom he loved the most.
1:11.6	Doc thought of Texas once more of a new beginning, a fresh start,
1:15.1	someplace where he can lay down his guns and stop looking over his shoulder.
1:18.5	Of course, he would need a grub steak, and unfortunately, that meant pulling one last job
1:23.3	with Billy the damn kid.
1:25.0	My name's Josh, and you're listening to the Wild West extravaganza.
1:37.4	If you're here to learn more about Doc Skirlock, well, you have certainly come to the right
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