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

By Paul L. Tsompanas

Book Overview

Juan Patr n 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, Patr n 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 Patr n'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, Patr n would have become New Mexico's first congressman when it entered the Union in 1912.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984958886
• ISBN13: 9780984958887
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"