Lincoln, NM Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

One of the most enduring of New Mexico's many legendary Wild West figures was a Brooklyn-born one-time bus boy named William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid . Many towns lay claim to him, but he first came to fame as an eighteen-year-old in the Lincoln County War , which erupted in 1878 in the frontier town of LINCOLN – on Hwy-380 halfway between Carlsbad and Albuquerque – when rival groups of ranchers and merchants fought to gain control of the town and the hundreds of square miles of grazing lands surrounding it. Since those days, no new buildings have joined the venerable false-fronted … more »