Juan Patron: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid

Juan Patron: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the KidJuan Patron lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed for his heroics, Patron tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as speaker of the territorial house at age twenty five, the youngest person to hold this position in New Mexico history. With keen, well researched

Juan Patron lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed for his heroics, Patron tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed-first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as speaker of the territorial house at age twenty-five, the youngest person to hold this position in New Mexico history. With keen, well-researched detail and the skill of a master storyteller, author Paul Tsompanas leads us through Patron's life and times-and his fate at the hands of a Texas cowboy named Michael Maney, who outdrew him in a dramatic showdown. Many believe that, had he lived, Patron would have become New Mexico's first congressman when it entered the Union in 1912.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
Published: 07/02/2012
ISBN: 9780984958887
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d