Elfego Baca in Life and Legend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elfego Baca in Life and Legend write by Margaret Schmidt Hacker. This book was released on 1992. Elfego Baca in Life and Legend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After being captured by Comanches, Parker spent 15 years with them, and then was recaptured by the Texas Rangers.
Elfego Baca in Life and Legend
Elfego Baca in Life and Legend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elfego Baca in Life and Legend write by Larry D. Ball. This book was released on 1992. Elfego Baca in Life and Legend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Mexico's Elfego 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, practised 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. While a lawyer by profession, politics were Baca's ruling passion. He held numerious local elective offices but his hopes for a career in federal service were dashed with the disgrace of Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall.
Tom Horn in Life and Legend
Tom Horn in Life and Legend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tom Horn in Life and Legend write by Larry D. Ball. This book was released on 2014-05-19. Tom Horn in Life and Legend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career. Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated. To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Horn’s own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. Ball’s study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.
Incredible Elfego Baca
Incredible Elfego Baca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incredible Elfego Baca write by Howard Bryan. This book was released on 1993. Incredible Elfego Baca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4,000 shots at him without effect. In this informative and entertaining book, Howard Bryan examines the facts and legends surrounding Baca's long and astonishing career as a gunfighter and ruffian, lawyer, sheriff, mayor, district attorney, and a perennial candidate for political office. This remarkable man was the subject of a Wait Disney television series titled The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.
Viva Elfego!
Viva Elfego! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viva Elfego! write by Stan Sager. This book was released on 2008-03-20. Viva Elfego! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I will show them there is at least one Mexican in the country who is not afraid of a Texas cowboy. Having drawn the line, teenager Elfego Baca backed up his words with his six guns. Nobody, but nobody, even Texans, would any longer subject the peaceful Mexican settlers of the New Mexico frontier to abuse, mutilation or humiliation. It took Baca just thirty-six hours in the fall of 1884 to earn his reputation as savior of the Hispanics of the Territory of New Mexico. When the gun-smoke had blown away, the eighty Texans who had poured over 4,000 bullets and a few charges of dynamite into the hut where the teen had taken refuge, toasted his survival with drinks at Milligan's Whiskey Bar. In the sixty years that followed, Elfego made himself into a lawyer often known for sleaze, a politician suspected of dealing under the table, a guy who liked his liquor too much, a bankrupt, and the object of a $30,000 reward by Pancho Villa. But why? Why did the hero fall from grace? Stan Sager has laid out the reasons for Baca's heroism and why he later destroyed his own reputation. Sager's book looks into the hero's childhood in Kansas to find the roots of both his valor and his vulnerability. It tells of the events of his young manhood that made it necessary for the kid who grew up in Topeka speaking English only, to fit himself into the Spanish-speaking community of Socorro the only way he knew how--by bravado and bluster. It relates the bizarre activities that led him to lose his reputation as a hero. And finally, it explains why the hero self-destructed, and it pleas for his forgiveness.
