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portada viva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic hero
viva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic heroviva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic hero
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
279
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1.6 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN
0865346089
ISBN13
9780865346086
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viva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic hero

Stan Sager (Author) · Sunstone Press · Paperback

viva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic hero - Sager, Stan

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Synopsis "viva elfego!,the case for elfego baca, hispanic hero"

"I will show them there is at least one Mexican in the country who is not afraid of a Texas cowboy." Having drawn the line, teenager Elfego Baca backed up his words with his six guns. Nobody, but nobody, even Texans, would any longer subject the peaceful Mexican settlers of the New Mexico frontier to abuse, mutilation or humiliation. It took Baca just thirty-six hours in the fall of 1884 to earn his reputation as savior of the Hispanics of the Territory of New Mexico. When the gun-smoke had blown away, the eighty Texans who had poured over 4,000 bullets and a few charges of dynamite into the hut where the teen had taken refuge, toasted his survival with drinks at Milligan's Whiskey Bar. In the sixty years that followed, Elfego made himself into a lawyer often known for sleaze, a politician suspected of dealing under the table, a guy who liked his liquor too much, a bankrupt, and the object of a $30,000 reward by Pancho Villa. But why? Why did the hero fall from grace? Stan Sager has laid out the reasons for Baca's heroism and why he later destroyed his own reputation. Sager's book looks into the hero's childhood in Kansas to find the roots of both his valor and his vulnerability. It tells of the events of his young manhood that made it necessary for the kid who grew up in Topeka speaking English only, to fit himself into the Spanish-speaking community of Socorro the only way he knew how--by bravado and bluster. It relates the bizarre activities that led him to lose his reputation as a hero. And finally, it explains why the hero self-destructed, and it pleas for his forgiveness.

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