Summary: In October, 1884, in the town of Middle San Francisco Plaza (now Reserve, New Mexico), Elfego Baca arrested a drunk cowboy named Charlie McCarty. Baca flashed his badge at McCarty and took Charlie's gun. McCarty's fellow cowboys tried to take him by force, but Baca refused and opened fire on the cowboys, killing the horse of one, which fell on his rider, killing him. Baca shot another cowboy in the knee. After that, Baca took refuge in a small jackal and traded gunfire for two days with the enraged Texans, who lost 4 men, despite using everything, including a stick of dynamite, to kill him. Baca survived and became a lawman and lawyer, defending the rights of the poor and oppressed.
