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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 of the later years of the New Mexico Territory frontier.
Catron County, New Mexico. / 33.92°N 108.42°W / 33.92; -108.42. Catron County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,579, [ 1] making it New Mexico's third-least populous county. Its county seat is Reserve. [ 2] Catron County is New Mexico's largest county by area.
Today, Alma is labeled as a "ghost town" by the New Mexico Tourism Department. Situated on U.S. Route 180, the town has a restaurant and a small store, as well as a few dozen scattered homes. There is a cemetery with more than 100 burials dating from the 1880s to present. The well-kept grounds are marked with a hand-crafted sign. [8]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 2008. Deming. [ 92] Felon. 2008. New Mexico State Penitentiary, Santa Fe. [ 93] Beer for My Horses.
Thomas B. Catron. Thomas Benton Catron (October 6, 1840 – May 15, 1921) was an American politician and lawyer who was influential in the establishment of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and served as one of its first United States Senators. Catron has defenders but enemies have described him as a "greedy land grabber and ruthless politico."
Harding County, New Mexico. / 35.86°N 103.82°W / 35.86; -103.82. Harding County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 657, [ 1] making it the least populous county in the state, and the 13th-smallest county by population in the United States. Its county seat is Mosquero. [ 2]
February 21, 1969. Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver mines in the surrounding mountains.
Frisco shootout. The Frisco Store in Lower Frisco Plaza. The Frisco shootout was an Old West gunfight that began on December 1, 1884, involving lawman Elfego Baca. The shootout happened in Reserve, New Mexico, and stemmed from Baca's arrest of a cowboy, Charlie McCarty, who had been shooting into the air and into buildings at random while ...