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.
Borders of Violence and Justice
Borders of Violence and Justice - 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 Borders of Violence and Justice write by Brian D. Behnken. This book was released on 2022-10-07. Borders of Violence and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement—both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice—across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. Representing a broad, colonial regime, police agencies and extralegal groups policed and controlled Mexican-origin people to maintain state and racial power in the region, treating Mexicans and Mexican Americans as a "foreign" population that they deemed suspect and undesirable. White Americans justified these perceptions and the acts of violence that they spawned with racist assumptions about the criminality of Mexican-origin people, but Behnken details the many ways Mexicans and Mexican Americans responded to violence, including the formation of self-defense groups and advocacy organizations. Others became police officers, vowing to protect Mexican-origin people from within the ranks of law enforcement. Mexican Americans also pushed state and territorial governments to professionalize law enforcement to halt abuse. The long history of the border region between the United States and Mexico has been one marked by periodic violence, but Behnken shows us in unsparing detail how Mexicans and Mexican Americans refused to stand idly by in the face of relentless assault.
Law and Order, Ltd
Law and Order, Ltd - 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 Law and Order, Ltd write by Kyle Crichton. This book was released on 2008. Law and Order, Ltd available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1884 Elfego Baca earned top ranking as a gunfighter, ducking some 4,000 bullets fired by 80 cowboys aiming to kill him. The reason for the shoot-out was Baca's obsession with rescuing Mexican settlers from abuse by Texans in days before "civil rights" became a catch phrase.
¡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. ¡Viva Elfego! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It took Elfego Baca just 36 hours in the fall of 1884 to earn his reputation as savior of the Hispanics of the Territory of New Mexico. In 60 years he 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, and the object of a $30,000 reward by Pancho Villa.
Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go
Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go - 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 Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go write by Russell W. Estlack. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians. They all helped shape the myth and legend of the American West. This book reveals the stories of characters like Mary Fields, Cleophas Dowd, and Judge Roy Bean, and offers glimpses of gunfights, holdups, mining claim battles, and more.
