The summer after William “Billy the Kid” McCarty cheated his hangman and successfully broke out of jail, killing two guards during his escape, citizens of Las Vegas, New Mexico, encountered a new horror. They didn’t let their man get away this time. The frontier justice they delivered was captured in a stereoview that sold at Cowan’s Auctions on March 30, 2015. Why did the enraged citizens hang this man to a telegraph pole? His name was José Mares, alias Frank Tafoya, better known


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