We want pictures. :-)
Reading between the lines it sounds like the Dolan faction was aligned with Catron's Santa Fe Ring, since the Army commander was a buddy of Catron's. If so, McSween was REALLY fighting uphill.
As I recall, and I haven't gone back to check this, Governor Lew Wallace was so fed up with the lawlessness in New Mexico that he quit before his term was up and went back East. His time in Santa Fe couldn't have been too stressful, however, as he found time to write Ben Hur. :)