San Juan Mission, left, and the El Torreón fortification, center, are two of the features at the Historic Lincoln district in Lincoln, an unincorporated village in southeast New Mexico

The San Juan Mission, left, and the El Torreón fortification, center, are two of the features at the Historic Lincoln district in Lincoln, an unincorporated village in southeast New Mexico Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer still image graphic still image Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. xxu 2018 monographic 2018-03-10 eng 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. No known restrictions on publication. Title, date, keywords, and additional description details based on information provided by the photographer. Half a century later, Lincoln was the centerpiece of the three-year-long "Lincoln County War" that began in 1878 and involved gunfights among factions of rival store owners, cattlemen, and outlaws, including the infamous Henry McCarty, better known as "Billy the Kid." Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2020; (DLC/PP-2020:133). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. America El Torreón Stone fortifications Lincoln County War Billy the Kid San Juan Mission Historic Lincoln District United States New Mexico Lincoln County Lincoln LC-DIG-highsm- 65814 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.65814 Carol M. Highsmith Archive (DLC) 00650024 Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- 2020742945 LC-DIG-highsm-65814 DLC aacr dcrmg DLC 210707 20250607110249.0 22129216 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng