Top cast Edit. Robert F. Peter Adams Wingate as Wingate uncredited. Roberto Contreras Miner as Miner uncredited. Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Arturo Baca as Arturo Baca uncredited. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia This particular program was also released theatrically under the slightly-changed title of "The 9 Lives of Elfego Baca". The one-sheet poster lists the distributor as Buena Vista.
User reviews 1 Review. Top review. Adventurer, Gunfighter, Sheriff, Attorney Meanwhile, he and his friends would move McCarty to an adobe house in the Middle Plaza where it would be easier to maintain possession of their prisoner.
By this time a dozen or so cowboys had gathered with their Winchester rifles at ready, led by Slaughter foreman Young Parham. Cook and the Englishman, William French. McCarty was fined five dollars and released, complaining about his not getting his revolver back even as the prudent Baca began backing out the side door and chasing out the residents of the nearby Armijo jacal.
Made of thin cedar poles stuck into the ground and coated on both sides with an adobe mud slip, its walls would offer little resistance to the concerted attack he expected to follow. He was answered most poignantly by twin grain slugs, one of which caught Hearne solidly in the gut and sent him to the ground. The cowboys responded with what became a steady volley of rifle fire, lobbing rounds from nearly every angle. He was thus enabled to coolly return fire with his single-action handguns even as lead rained through the space above.
While most of the town climbed up on the overlooking hills to watch, a group of the attackers stretched blankets between the nearby houses to conceal their movements, and others fired from behind the buttress of the adobe church.
One brave attacker fell back with his scalp neatly creased by a bullet, after attempting to approach the jacal with an iron stove-door for a shield. Finally as day turned into night, they were able to toss flaming kerosene-soaked rags onto the dirt and latilla branch roof.
One wall gave way under the combined assault of lead and fire, causing a portion of the roof to collapse on the hapless defender. Come the first gray light of dawn they were surprised, mortified even, by the thin wisps of smoke rising from the perforated woodstove. When at last James Cook and the newly arrived Deputy Ross of Socorro convinced Baca to come out, personally guaranteeing his safety, some of the Hispanic spectators yelled for him to run. The ever-blessed Elfego even missed an ambush planned for him on the route, when two different groups of avengers each mistakenly thought the other had carried out the mercenary deed.
In jail only four months, Elfego was tried on two separate occasions and was surprisingly acquitted each time. A close look at every other historical source indicates that only the one attacker actually died from gunfire, with a second killed by when his own horse fell on him.
Likely the poor fellow with the bullet through the knee was the only one with a significant non-fatal wound. Regardless, the Frisco War remains the most astoundingly unequal civilian gunfight ever recorded. They surrounded him and poured withering fire into the small room. Baca was spared by a sunken floor. When he returned fire, his aim was deadly. Baca fired two rounds through the cracks and hit Hearne in the stomach.
The cowboys strung blankets on rope between buildings so they could move in on the jacale. One charged behind shield from cast iron stove but Baca creased his scalp. Citizens gathered nearby to cheer him on. During the fight Baca put his hat on bust of plaster saint as a target. He later testified there were holes in door and a broom handle was hit eight times. Although thousands of shots were fired but only one man was killed and one wounded.
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