Juan Patrón : a fallen star in the days of Billy the Kid
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Published
[Richmond, Va.] : Belle Isle Books, [2013].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xv, 197 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimile ; 23 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Southwest Collection
BIO PATRON, J
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Published
[Richmond, Va.] : Belle Isle Books, [2013].
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.
Description
"Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed for his heroics, Patrón tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed-first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as speaker of the territorial house at age twenty-five, the youngest person to hold this position in New Mexico history. ...the author leads us through Patrón's life and times-and his fate at the hands of a Texas cowboy named Michael Maney, who outdrew him in a dramatic showdown. Many believe that, had he lived, Patrón would have become New Mexico's first congressman when it entered the Union in 1912"--Cover p. [4].
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