Jose Chavez y Chavez was born in 1851, in Ceboleta, New Mexico. As he grew up Jose realized as he grew up that real labor was very difficult so instead he committed crimes, ranging from theft to cattle rustling. During the times of the Lincoln County War Jose had joined the side of Billy the Kid and the Regulators. The Lincoln County War was a series of gunfights between the Regulators and the Dolan gang. At one point John Tunstall was murdered by the Dolan gang. This eventually led to the assassination of Sheriff Brady by some members of the Regulators. A while later, Jose would try and take credit for the assassination of the sheriff. In March of 1879, Governor Lew Wallace established a militia to try and stop all the chaos going on in the