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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elfego Baca liked to tell the tales of his rootin'-tootin' career as a lawman in the old West to anyone who would listen, which was a break for a teenage reporter on the Albuquerque Journal in the ...