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Updated: May 14, 2025

Ranged about the room were a dozen or more rawhide-seated chairs, each standing stiffly at "attention" against the wall scrupulously equidistant order. Glaring at me in crude lettering from a broad rafter facing the door was the grimly patriotic sentiment, "Libertad o Muerte." From the headpost of the cot dangled a sword and two pistols.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier