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| | DESPERADO -- Billy the Kid |
 | | Employed as a ranchhand with a wealthy English businessman and cattleman named John Henry Tunstall, Billy acts as hired gun in a dispute between Tunstall and rival merchants Lawrence G. Murphy and James J. Dolan. |
 | | What began as a price war becomes a range war when on February 18, 1878 the brash young Tunstall (only twenty-three) is assassinated by Murphy's men while Billy and a group of Tunstall cowboys watch helplessly from a nearby mesa. |
 | | On March 9, 1878, Billy and other members of Tunstall's posse, or "Regulators," which include Dick Brewer (Tunstall's foreman), Charlie Bowdre, William McCloskey, John Middleton, Frank McNab, Henry Brown, J.G. Seurlock, Wayt Smith, and Jim French, track down and kill Frank Baker and William Morton -- two of the chief suspects in John Tunstall's murder. |
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