October 1876
Tunstall meets McSween for the first time. They were in Santa Fa on business and stayed at the same place. Tunstall was looking into ranching in New Mexico and McSween being the only lawer in Lincoln Co. was in Santa Fa on law bussness.. Tunstall wrote to his father about the meeting on October 28- 1876.
read: High Noon in Lincoln, by Robert M. Utley, or
The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall by Frederick W. Nolan
university of new mexico press