Walt Disneys passion for reallife heroes from the pages of American history was showcased in a host of extremely popular TV series inspired by reallife adventurers who were legends in their own time ...

When I was a young boy I used to watch the Disney program, "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" every week about a sheriff in New Mexico. I later found out that he actually came to El Paso and was ...

Over the years in writing this column, I have repeatedly dealt with episodes in the careers of three men — Billy the Kid, Kit Carson and Elfego Baca. While the first two names are familiar to most ...

In the Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy the Kid’s. Elfego decided to become a ...

P. Antonio Mrquez as Elfego Baca waits to set up a shot on the set of “¡Baca the Kid!" (Courtesy of Joey Alvarado) P. Antonio Márquez knows that making a film – even a short one – takes a massive ...

Edward Dorado of La Puente was channel surfing when an image of a startling newspaper headline suddenly appeared on his TV screen: “Sheriff Baca Resigns.” If you haven’t heard the news, it’s because ...

Golf balls were ricocheting across the rugged mountains of New Mexico, as the Elfego Baca shootout—a one-hole, six-hour, three-mile-long golfing ordeal—teed off for the 51st straight year. Only A Game ...