Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West - Softcover
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A legend during his lifetime, a folk hero after his death, Elfego Baca (1865-1945) was a true product of the Western frontier. Best remembered for his single-handed battle against an estimated eighty Texas cowboys who fired a reported four thousand shots at him without effect, Baca achieved the reputation as one of New Mexico's most colorful figures during his long career as a gunfighter, ruffian, lawyer, sheriff, mayor, district attorney and perennial candidate for state and federal offices. Three times he was tried and acquitted of murder charges, as well as a charge of conspiracy against the United States government. Ranking in popular imagination alongside the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, Baca's fight with the Texas cowboys has been the subject of countless articles as well as films and Hispanic folk songs. WINNER WESTERN WRITER SPUR AWARD.
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SPUR Award Winner
"Bryan does a good job in recounting Baca's adventures, shifting from narration to first person eye-witness accounts to Baca's side of the story and back, lending an air of authenticity and immediacy to the proceedings...One is struck in the accounts by his remarkable courage, humor and wit."--Santa Fe New Mexican
"I thank Howard Bryan for putting together this very readable book on Elfego. The portrait he draws is true. Warts and all. For me Elfego has always been a hero, both the man and the myth. As a young man he stood up to injustice. So, I take his good points and excuse some of his follies."--Rudolfo Anaya
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- PublisherClear Light Publishers
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0940666375
- ISBN 13 9780940666375
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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