Doc Scurlock [SEP] place of death
and associates stole a large number of cattle from Chisum. After Chisum sent a posse after them, Scurlock decided to leave the gang.
Later life.
In about October or November 1879, Scurlock moved to Texas, where he settled down and became a highly respected citizen. On the 1880 census in Potter County, Texas, he was keeping the mail station.
Doc Scurlock died at age 80 from a heart attack in Eastland, Texas. He is interred in Eastland City Cemetery, along with his wife and
by actor Casey Siemaszko. The circumstances of his death were the basis of a scene in "Young Guns II", however, in the movie Doc Scurlock, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is the one who meets his fate outside the hut, and not Bowdre. He will be portrayed by Chris Bylsma in the upcoming film "The Kid" directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.
External links.
- About Charlie Bowdre
- Doc Scurlock, Charlie Bowdre
- Doc Scurlock, Educated Gunman, Friendship and Association with Charlie