Incredible Elfego Baca Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West

"Bryan does a good job in recounting Baca's adventures, shifting from narration to first person eye-witness accounts to Baca's side of the story and back, lending an air of authenticity and immediacy to the proceedings.... One is struck in the accounts by his remarkable courage, humor and wit". (New Mexican)"I thank Howard Bryan for putting together this very readable book on Elfego. The portrait he draws is true. Warts and all. For me Elfego has always been a hero, both the man and the myth. As a young man he stood up to injustice. So, I take his good points and excuse some of his follies". (Rudolfo Anaya)Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4,000 shots at him without effect. In this informative and entertaining book, Howard Bryan examines the facts and legends surrounding Baca's long and astonishing career as a gunfighter and ruffian, lawyer, sheriff, mayor, district attorney, and a perennial candidate for political office. This remarkable man was the subject of a Wait Disney television series titled "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca".Bryan, Howard is the author of 'Incredible Elfego Baca Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West' with ISBN 9780940666344 and ISBN 0940666340.