From: spottedpony@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <13514-3FA410CF-253@storefull-2233.public.lawson.webtv.net>,   
   ReverseDraw@webtv.net says...   
   >   
   >Well the first question did so well I thought i'd try another! So what   
   >do you think was the most interesting (real) gunfight or battle and why?   
      
   Here's my contribution. Being as I'm a resident   
   of Lincoln County, New Mexico, I should probably   
   refer one and all to the shootout from jail of   
   Billy the Kid - but I won't. Here is a much more   
   interesting account, and you can be the judge of   
   whether or not time has enhanced history:   
      
   Southwestern New Mexico was still untamed, ranching country.   
   Geronimo would not be captured for another two years and   
   Billy the Kid was killed just three years before.   
   It was a time and place that cowboys did what they wanted,   
   when they wanted.   
      
   Socorro County, New Mexico, in 1884.  The year when a   
   self-appointed deputy sheriff named Elfego Baca set   
   out to restore order to the small town of Frisco, near   
   present-day Reserve, New Mexico.   
      
   Elfego Baca arrested one of these cowboys that were   
   shooting up the town of Frisco.  The cowboy's friends   
   wanted him released.  Something Elfego Baca wasn't going   
   to do.  A standoff ensued when Baca took shelter in  the   
   tiny house of Geronimo Armijo.  The standoff resulted in a   
   furious attack by over 80 cowhands, in which over 4,000   
   rounds were fired into the house by those outside.  Elfego   
   Baca managed to kill four of his assailants and wounded eight   
   others.  Thirty-six hours after it began, Elfego Baca walked   
   out unharmed and into history, at 19 years of age.   
      
   Baca was admitted to the Bar in 1894 at the age of 29.   
   Later he also became a Deputy United States Marshall, an   
   assistant district attorney, the mayor of Socorro, and   
   among other things, in 1919, became Sheriff of Socorro County.   
   Elfego Baca died in 1945.   
      
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