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Lincoln County Regulators

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In 1878, a group organized a militia of "Regulators" to counter what they deemed as corrupt law enforcement in Lincoln County. On March 9, 1878, a posse of Regulators killed William Morton and Frank Baker in Blackwater Canyon when they allegedly tried to escape after being arrested for John Tunstall's murder.

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