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It also follows two lawsuits, one in state court that saw the city of Las Cruces settle with the Baca family for $2.75 million and one in federal court where a judge found Cosper did not use ...
Baca. The progenitors of the Baca family of New Mexico were Cristóbal Baca (Vaca) and his wife Ana Ortiz. Cristóbal was a military captain from Mexico City, who arrived in 1600 with his family to help reinforce the Spanish colonial Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. At the time, they had three grown daughters ...
The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, south of Crestone, Colorado, was a large land grant made in 1860 by the United States to the heirs of the original Vegas Grandes Grant to Baca family of New Mexico at Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1][2][3] Title to the grant at Las Vegas was clouded by a second grant of the same land. [3]
Elfego Baca. Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, who became an American folk hero of the later years of the New Mexico Territory frontier. [1][2][3][4][5][6] His goal in life was to be a peace officer, and for "the outlaws to hear [his] steps a ...
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Pat Garrett. Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
Hundreds of police officers from Las Cruces, El Paso, across New Mexico and as far away as Boston, Chicago and New York attended the funeral. The funeral procession departed about 9 a.m. from ...
Website. www.donaanacounty.org. Doña Ana County (Spanish: Condado de Doña Ana) is a county located in the southern part of the New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, its population was 219,561, [1] which makes it the second-most populated county in New Mexico. Its county seat is Las Cruces, [2] the second-most populous ...