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Article: John Wayne, in Spanish; Latino heroes; Latinos discover a hero.(Elfego Baca memorial proposed in New Mexico)(United States)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2001
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NEW MEXICO, the home of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, has always had a soft spot for desperadoes. Its most recent would-be hero, arrested last month after a sharp gun battle, is "Handsome" Shane Chubbuck, a poetry-loving bank robber who left female cashiers applauding his kindly promise that the money he had just stolen would go to help Zapatist rebels in Mexico. Now an attempt is being made to revive the memory of a gunslinger who genuinely deserves a raising of the hat. The people of Reserve, a town in Catron County, out in the west of the state, want the state legislature to put up $100,000 for a memorial to Elfego Baca.
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