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Remember the Baca-Cowboy War?

by | Jul 1, 2008 | True Westerners

Henry Martinez fights for an Elfego Baca museum.
For most of his life, Henry Martinez had no idea he was part of history. He grew up in the western New Mexico town of Reserve, population 336 today, where he thought not much important had ever happened. Like most kids, he left when he finished high school in 1964. First the Air Force called to him, then he spent 25 years with the Social Security office in Phoenix, where he


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