Foundation & Artifacts from Susan McSween's home in White Oaks, New Mexico
Deacquisitoned Billy the Kid Era Artifacts, From Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone Arizona
 
The adobe brick & shards of dishes and porcelain were picked up from the ground in 1957 while visiting and researching the area.
The photograph was taken in 2002 of the remnants of her house and is now posted with "no trespassing" signs.
Susan McSween was the wife of Alexander McSween. The McSweens formed a partnership with John Tunstall. The latter opened up a business in Lincoln, New Mexico at the time (1870 - 1880s)controlled by the "Santa Fe Ring." The " Ring" backed up Murphy-Dolan Mercantile that had economically controlled the region for years. This resulted in the  Lincoln County War.
William H. Bonney alias "The Kid", "Billy The Kid," was employed by the McSween Tunstall faction.
After Susan McSween's husband was killed in the Lincoln Country War she continued to carry on her late husband's ambition and became known as the "Cattle Queen" of the region and at a later date remarried and then divorced. She retired to White Oaks, New Mexico and was a vibrant, active individual region in the community that became a ghost town in the early 1900s.
Her home burned down and at the ripe-old age shimmied down a rain gutter from her second story bedroom and escaped unharmed.
Susan McSween is interred in the White Oaks Cemetery that is still an active final resting place for Lincoln County Residents.
Mrs. McSween was a strong supporter of one of her/her husband's cowhand "Billy The Kid." She always defended his character. She blamed the Dolan faction and Garrett for inventing llies about him.