Lawrence Murphy

…Murphy was already dying of cancer by the time Tunstall arrived, and he largely retreated from active management, but James Dolan was a younger, harder man with a violent temper and a deep hatred for anyone who threatened his money.…

…Naturally, whoever controlled the supply contracts to the fort and the reservation effectively controlled the entire county, and in the early 1870s that control belonged almost completely to a tight little partnership of two men, Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan.…