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  • Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico.

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      Elfego Baca (February 10, – August 27, ) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, who became an American folk hero of the later years of the New Mexico Territory frontier.

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  • Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, who became an American folk hero.
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  • Elfego Baca lived a remarkable life, legends aside.

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      In late October , in a dramatic display of skill, spunk and luck, unimposing 5-foot-7 year-old Elfego Baca instigated and prevailed in what was likely the most unequal civilian gunfight in the history of the American West.

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      Elfego Baca (February 10, – August 27, ) was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west.

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  • As his story plays out on television screens, we reflect on the New Mexico lawman, lawyer, and politician’s colorful life.

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    Sheriff in New Mexico, US (1865–1945)

    Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, who became an American folk hero of the later years of the New Mexico Territoryfrontier.[1][2][3][4][5][6] His goal in life was to be a peace officer, and for "the outlaws to hear [his] steps a block away". He is known for his involvement in an 1884 shootout in Frisco (now Reserve), New Mexico, as well as later fictionalized representations of his life in Westerns released during the mid-20th century.

    Early life

    Baca was born in 1865 in Socorro, New Mexico, to Francisco and Juana Maria Baca. His family 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 the age of 19, Baca acquired some guns and became a d