Elfego Baca In Life And Legend

LARRY D. BALL

Publication: Texas Western Press, 1992, El Paso

First edition. 8vo. Perfect bound, pictorial stiff wrappers, [10], 146 pp., preface, illustrated from photographs, frontispiece, map, notes, bibliography, index. A thorough biography of New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca, 1864-1945. Baca earned a place in Southwestern legend in 1884 as a young deputy sheriff of Socorro County. In the town of Frisco he held off a gang of rioting cowboys for 36 hours, killed four of the gang, wounded eight others, and walked away without a scratch. But there was more to Baca than this incident. He rose in his accidental profession of the law to a political career that last a half-century. He served as sheriff of Socorro County, practiced law, operated a detective agency, published a Spanish language newspaper, became associated with the Victoriano Huerta movement in the Mexican Revolution, and engaged in real estate and mining speculation. As new, unread copy.