Business ads and cards (English and Spanish) and clippings, about Baca as attorney and detective in Belen and Albuquerque and Elfego’s Restaurant and Import Store. Includes a letter from Baca to his grandson William Joseph McGuinness, asking for addresses, 1938

Kelsey, Guy Franklin, Hollywood, California, hand analyst, did a study of full hand print of Baca, included notes on his life lines and characteristics. Includes letter to Baca.

Cook, James H. and son, Harold J. Cook, letters, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Recollections of Baca and a fight at Frisco in 1881. Comments on Harold C. Wilson and Baca’s movie. Cook was manager of the WS Ranch and wrote about Baca in Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.

Recollections and stories by Baca in news clippings. Including one about a puro - cigar named for him in 1909, the Elfego Baca, by Kirster Brothers, Albuquerque. Also notices about Baca’s birthdays, health, offices, and career. One refers to finding a .45 Colt pistol while excavating for the new Albuquerque federal building, thought to be Baca’s gun.

Baca at the Indian Territory Day, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1939. Clippings, accounts of Baca’s adventures, photo with A. Quintana, his Secretary, and Kit Carson III. Also Baca at the National Frontiersman Association, Houston, Texas. Letters and clippings, guest at the convention in 1942, planned bronze plaque of Baca.

Alfredo Baca, Albuquerque, Elfego Baca’s son, July 1941. Elfego Baca, fragment, August 1945. John Fraser Pearce, M.D., Albuquerque, October 1937. Richard Stackpole, Silver City, November 1931.

Campaign flyer for Baca, run for reelection, sheriff, Socorro.

Spring 1928 – news clippings, Baca for governor of New Mexico, manifesto, Fred Otero insult and clash with Baca. Also includes clippings on Baca’s talk at the Albuquerque Rotary Club, when he was introduced by author Kyle S. Crichton.

News clippings, talk of Baca for U.S. Representative to Congress.

News clippings about the Republican campaign, Hoover, Cutting, Dillon. Establishing the Elfego Baca Club, the Independent vote, possibility of a Third Party; Hubbell, Spanish American candidates and voters.

News clippings, Baca for district judge, Seventh District, issues of time.

Clippings about politics in Valencia County, county convention in Belen

Clippings, campaign literature, Runs for district attorney, Second Judicial District – Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia Counties. Contains a biography of Baca, including stories of Billy the Kid, adventures in Frisco. Also includes a 1930 corrido for Baca and a 1934 clipping about his position on the direct primary law.

News clipping, erroneous report that Baca was elected a judge to New Mexico Supreme Court.

A public letter from Baca, October 1944, explaining his political position and career back to 1930, why he switched from Republican to Democrat, information on his district judge campaign. Also includes a 1944 political ad for Baca.

Copy of a talk by Baca about the Rio Grande Conservancy District bill, ca. 1927, regarding people losing land for interest and back taxes.

Curtis, Charles, letter and clippings. Curtis was a candidate for Vice President in 1928 with Hoover. Baca was state manager for Curtis and campaigned extensively and at own expense. Endorsements of Baca for any political job, specifically as Ambassador to Mexico. Clippings on Curtis, his run for Senate, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District program.

Cutting, Bronson, letters and clipping,1924-1934, from Cutting to Baca, who served as an agent and assistant to Cutting, in property and political matters. Cutting’s comments on Baca’s campaigns, his Law and Order book, the Elfego Baca Club, Cutting’s heath, etc. Mention of Olivia M. Cutting.

Dempsey, John, letters, Western Union telegraph, 1939-1944, comments on State politics, the Elfego Baca Club, Baca’s campaigns, bossism and election fraud in Sandoval County in 1940, promoting business in New Mexico and Baca’s asking Dempsey for a seat on the American Mexican Claims Commission, 1943. Includes a copy of a note from Cordell Hull to Dempsey, 1942, with photograph of Dempsey.

Miles, John E., letter, 1944, thanks for support and inquiring of Baca’s health.

Mexican affairs, clipping about Baca’s 1928 trips to Mexico to meet with former leaders in the Revolution, to boost his own run for Governor of New Mexico, to make arrangements for mining property, rights to his book in Mexico, etc. One clipping notes Baca also met with President Hoover, Curtis and Washington officials about Mexican affairs.

A copy of one page of a report by Inspector Elfego Baca to Fall as Secretary of the Interior, 1921. Baca’s Inspection of the Bureau of Mines Experimental Station, Fuel Testing Plant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, condition of the site considered for lease by government.

A copy of Law and Order, Ltd., by Kyle S. Crichton, first edition, 1928. The original cover for the book, torn, is in the Mss Oversize folder. This is the book that Elfego Baca signed to his wife, dated August 1, 1928. His signatures are also on front and back inside covers. Folded inside was a copy of his picture on the CBS Ripley’s Believe It or Not show, Santa Fe.

Clippings of book critiques, with views of Baca, pro and con. Includes comments by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and clipping on talk by Baca at the Kiwanis Club.