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The Real Elfego Baca
IF ELFEGO BACA—who once held 80 rampaging Texas cowboys at bay for 36 hours—had lived to see his life portrayed in the Walt Disney TV-series [Elfego Baca], he would have enjoyed it immensely.
He might not have authenticated all the incidents as being strictly historical, but he would have relished the drama and excitement.
He was something of an actor himself and he loved to dramatize incidents of his own life in conversation with friends or interviewers.
In the last two decades of his life, I visited with him and interviewed him frequently for feature stories. He often recalled “the old days,” and with gestures and grimaces and a quick draw of the .45 he kept in his desk drawer, he made spectacular productions out of incidents in his flamboyant past.
Elfego had a robust sense of humor and he loved particularly to recount the amusing incidents.
Once I dropped into his office to find him shuffling th