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Elfego Baca ephemera, 1881-1938.
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Elfego Baca ephemera, 1881-1938Abstract:
Collection includes correspondence, legal documents (including a subpoena to appear at Baca's murder trial for Josepha Armija,
dated April 18, 1885), clippings, printed items, and a tintype portrait of Baca, circa 1881.
Date:
1881 (issued)Subject:
n-us-nmLawyers -- New Mexico
Politicians -- New Mexico
Police -- New Mexico
Politiciens -- Nouveau-Mexique
Lawyers
Police
Politicians
Socorro County (N.M.)
New Mexico -- Socorro County
New Mexico
Baca, Elfego -- 1865-1945 -- Archives
Baca, Elfego -- 1865-1945 -- Portraits
Note:
Purchase from Back of Beyond Books; 2015.
Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 - August 27, 1945) was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, detective, and politician in and around Socorro,
New Mexico, during the later years of the American frontier. His goal in life was to be a peace officer, and for "the outlaws
to hear my steps a block away." Baca was acquitted of murder after the Frisco Shootout, or Baca's Battle, of 1884. He later
became sheriff of Socorro County, a U.S. Marshal, county clerk, mayor, and school superintendent of Socorro County, and district
attorney for Socorro and Sierra counties.
Elfego Baca ephemera, BANC MSS 2015/161, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
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printed ephemera.photographs.
Portraits
Photographs
Archives
Ephemera
Tintypes.
Ephemera.
Photographs.
Documents éphémères.
Photographies.
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Language:
English