We'll send you a couple of emails per month, filled with fascinating history facts that you can share with your friends. Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA. But facing down the wild teenager who would become known as Billy the Kid must have been the closest call he ever had. Marauding Indians made moving cattle west a challenge, and rustlers also caused him grief. A cattle baron who moved longhorn herds from Texas into New Mexico in the mid-1800s, Chisum would work with Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, found one of the largest cattle ranches in the American West, and become involved in New Mexicos Lincoln County War. Chisum, who never married but had plenty of family around him, was certainly glad to find a degree of peace. Originally published in the August 2014 issue of Wild West. The partnership ended sometime after Texas seceded from the Union in the spring of 1861. His total stock losses from 1868 to 1874 reached $150,000, the largest in the nation. He was born Oct. 11, 1941, in Jackson, Tenn., the son of John F. Sr. and. john chisum cause of death; john chisum cause of death. John Motson Death Cause And Obituary: Did He Die Of Cancer? The first to be targeted were two Irish merchants who owned a large store and they were also government contractors. On this day in 1884 one of the key players in the Lincoln County War, 1878-1881 passed away. Age 74 at time of death. He herded cattle over many trails, but not to the extent of Loving, Goodnight or Slaughter.From the Clarksville Standard, January 9, 1885:John S. Chisum, long known as one of the cattle kings, died at Eureka Springs on the 22nd (Dec. 22, 1884) and was buried at Paris, Lamar County, (Texas) where the Chisum family lived in 1842, and where his father and mother died. He also served as county clerk in Lamar County.He was of Scottish, English, and Welsh descent. He was a very controversial figure, to say the least. Chisum sided with the Tunstall/McSween faction in their fight against Murphy/Dolan and reportedly offered to pay the Regulators (including Billy the Kid) for their service (a deal he later reneged on). That was where the 60-year-old cattleman died on December 22, 1884. It all just suddenly came to a grinding halt and I lost all hope of resurrecting it. With Stephen K. Fowler, a New Orleans investor, he filed on land in northwestern Denton County, purchased a partnership herd, and entered the cattle business with the Half Circle P brand. Chisum and his partners soon had 18,000 head grazing along the Colorado. In New Mexico, with 40,000 square miles of land and 100,000 head of cattle, Chisum would become known as The Cattle King of the Pecos. Specifically, as The Las Vegas Gazette reported, Chisum sold to R.D. He was born in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and moved with his family to the Republic of Texas in 1837, later finding work as a building contractor.