Description: George Myerson Jr. collection image of Charles Bowdre (1848-1880) (L) and Josial Gordon "Doc" Scurlock (R) were cowboys and outlaws. Bowdre arrived in Lincoln County, N.M. in 1874 and became friends with Doc Scurlock. They opened a cheese factory on the Gila River. He and Scurlock also joined several posses pursuing outlaws in this period. In 1878, Bowdre sided with the Tunstall-McSween side of the Lincoln County War. At this time, Bowdre met Billy the Kid and his gang and became a member of the Regulators. Bowdre also worked at this time on the ranches of Thomas Yerby and Pete Maxwell and married his wife Manuela. She was Scurlock's wife's sister. In December, 1880, he joined the Kid in an attempted ambush of Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M. A battle happened but the gang escaped to a house in Stinking Springs where Bowdre was killed by Garrett and his posse. He was buried next to his friend Tom O'Follard by his wife Manuela. Scurlock left Lincoln County in 1879 and moved to Texas where he died in Eastland, Texas at the age of 80 in 1929. Ref: Wikipedia Webb Site,2011.
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