Elfego Baca was a legendary lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Elfego Baca was born in New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War. His family later moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal. In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, … Wikipedia
Scene of the famous fight when Elfego Baca stood off a crowd of Texas cowboys, variously estimated at from thirty to eighty in number. www.ghosttowns.com/states/nm/frisco.html
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A legend is an unverifiable story passed from generation to generation. Many are exaggerated to make the truth sound interesting or a person seem larger than life. A great example of one such legendary figure is that of the famous marshal-lawyer Elfego www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/22_elfego_baca.htm
