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"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...
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The Gallup 14 A TRUE CRIME NOVEL GARY L. STUART The Gallup 14 is the true crime novel about a riot and a murder trial that took place on April 4, 1935 in Gallup New Mexico. A prisoner, Esiquel Navarro, had been shackled and was being led down a narrow alley by McKinley County Sherriff Mack Carmichael and two of his deputies. They had attended a bail hearing for Navarro and were pushing their way back to the jail through a hostile crowd of out-of-work...
12) Death comes for the chief justice: the Slough-Rynerson quarrel and political violence in New Mexico
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xviii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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125 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on the run from their pasts headed there seeking new starts before and after 1912 statehood. Colorful characters such as Bronco Sue, Sadie Orchard and Lizzie McGrath were noted mavens of mayhem, while many other women were notorious gamblers, bawdy madams...
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x,185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Voices From The Past" is presented in three parts. The first is a series of columns that tell of places, people and events during the Spanish (1598-1821) and Mexican (1821-1846) eras of New Mexico history. These stories range from the mundane, such as the formal contract for a horse race held in 1846 (the results of which remain unknown); the building of a bridge over the Rio Grande and the regulations for branding livestock, to the serious business...
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xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, was the only woman from New Mexico ever tried by the Inquisition for the crime of secretly practicing Jewish rituals. Doña Teresa's arrest, trial, and eventual exoneration shed light on the social fabric of seventeenth-century Santa Fe as well as the dangers of non-conformity on even the farthest frontiers of Spanish America. Accusing the governor and his wife of...
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127 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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When the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed previous Spanish and Mexican land grants, as well as rights for Native Americans to their ancestral homelands. However, organized property theft began soon after. People were methodically dispossessed of their homes through manipulation, conspiracy and even organized crime rings, leading to widespread poverty and isolation. Then in 1967, the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse...
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295 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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Collects pieces from seven prominent Mexican journalists who take risks to decry the crime, corruption, human rights violations, violence, and impunity in their country's recent history in stories about victims that emphasize the importance of not forgetting.
Recoge piezas de siete periodistas mexicanos destacados que toman riesgos que critican la delincuencia, corrupc̤in, violaciones de derechos humanos, violencia e impunidad en la historia reciente...
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Cold Case: Billy the Kid tackles the myths and legends about the misadventures and eventual killing of the notorious outlaw one by one, considering the evidence surrounding his life, death, and crimes from contemporary sources and looking at the physical evidence still extant today to consider the veracity of historical claims and considering the evidence through the lens of a legal investigation. In this first book, the writers tackle the evolution...
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x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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The exclusive inside story of the lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo - the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded capture for more than a decade. A cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Cole Merrell and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States...
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