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...Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy...
...should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough to fix some tortillas and beef stew. When the battle ended, four cowboys were dead, many wounded. Nineteen-year-old Elfego had not even been singed...
Nine Notches. From then on, there was great respect for Elfego and his triggerfinger in New Mexico. He killed five more men at various times-all, he said, in self-defense. The threat of a gun duel with Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from...
...night last week, in his home in Albuquerque, 80-year-old Elfego Baca ate his last hot-pepper supper, smoked his last black cigar. Then he died quietly in bed. On a chair within arm's reach hung a well-cleaned, highly-polished gun, with nine notches in the handle...
Engaged. Oliver La Farge II, 38, archeologist, author who gave fine publicity to New Mexico in his Pulitzer-Prizewinning Laughing Boy; and Consuelo Otille ("Billie") Baca, 26, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Pendaries Baca, onetime Secretary of State for New Mexico; in Santa...