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Title
  • Baca's battle; Elfego Baca's epic gunfight at 'Frisco Plaza, N. M., 1884, as reported at the time. Together with Baca's own final account of the battle.
Author
Beckett, V B
Publication
Houston, Tex., Stagecoach Press [1962]

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Additional Authors
  • Baca, Elfego, 1864-1945.
  • Cisneros, José, 1910-2009
  • Rittenhouse, Jack D. (Jack DeVere), 1912-
  • Stagecoach Press publisher.
Description
30 p.; 18 cm.
Summary
In 1884, Baca, a deputy sheriff, survived a gun battle against about 80 cattlemen. He was arrrested and later released. The battle was part of the conflicts between Texans and New Mexicans, cattlemen and ranchers, Anglos and Mexicans.
Subject
  • Baca, Elfego, 1864-1945
  • Gunfights > Reserve
  • New Mexico > History > 1848-
  • Reserve (N.M.) > History
  • Sheriffs > Reserve > Biography
  • Since 1848
Genre/Form
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Indexed In (note)
  • Adams, R.F. Six-guns and saddle leather (1969 edition),
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Baca's battle / by V.B. Beckett -- My fight at Frisco / by Elfego Baca.
LCCN
^^^61010936^
OCLC
10334587
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library