Shootout at Wilson Ranch
- When
- April 7, 1899
- Where
- Wilson Ranch, Chiricahua Mountains
Constable Ainsworth and Teddy Moore confronted the Halderman brothers at Wilson Ranch on April 7, 1899, resulting in the deaths of both lawmen.
Ainsworth and Moore arrived at the Wilson Ranch house on the morning of April 7, 1899, and Ainsworth read his warrant of arrest to the brothers. According to the defendants' account, Moore fired first and William returned fire, accidentally killing Ainsworth while shooting at Moore. A conflicting account held that the Haldermans fired first. Moore was struck in the bowels at about 150 yards and died hours later at the Moore Ranch.
Sources
- Shootout at Wilson Ranch Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-27
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.