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Dumas Provencher person

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)id: p_dumas-provencher_8182e8

also known as: Provencher

Probable 70%
Summary:  A pioneer of the territory, active in opposing the reign of terror, who was marked for death by assassins and killed on election night.
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a plot to kill the judges and seize the ballot at three precincts
cited from Shortly after midnight, of election day, the… (1891)
Shortly after midnight, of election day, the ballots of that precinct were still being counted by a flickering lamp, in a long, low room in the plaza of San Rafael, and poor Provencher was there. He had just received news of a plot to kill the…

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assassin with Springfield rifleelection day
cited from At that very instant there were six hired… (1891) · +1 more
hal, Martin Gallegos, to whisper a warning. Gallegos is hardly more than a boy — a common, illiterate Mexican youth, at whose awkwardness and ignorance most of us would turn up our noses. But that he had in him the stuff of men he showed b…
cited from At that very instant there were six hired… (1891)
At that very instant there were six hired murderers crouching at the open window; and while Provencher was yet speaking one of them thrust in his old Springfield and fired. The great half-inch ball struck Provencher in the aorta, and from that …
hired murderers
cited from At that very instant there were six hired… (1891)
At that very instant there were six hired murderers crouching at the open window; and while Provencher was yet speaking one of them thrust in his old Springfield and fired. The great half-inch ball struck Provencher in the aorta, and from that …
assassin's rifle shot
cited from they were invisible, and could kill every man… (1891)
they were invisible, and could kill every man in the room before one could lift a finger against them. There was but one thing to be done — to put out the betraying lamp. But that was thirty feet away; and before the nearest man could reach …
assassin's rifle shot
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-05-01 (1891) · +1 more
hal, Martin Gallegos, to whisper a warning. Gallegos is hardly more than a boy — a common, illiterate Mexican youth, at whose awkwardness and ignorance most of us would turn up our noses. But that he had in him the stuff of men he showed b…

occupation

pioneer of the territory
cited from the prisoner alive or dead, and listening for the… (1891) · +1 more
rgeant’s face and started for the door. The blinded officer, even in the inconceivable anguish of the moment, thought only of his orders to bring in ( 20 ) the prisoner alive or dead, and listening for the footsteps of the fugitive, fired …
pioneer
cited from As striking an example of “pure nerve*'… (1891)
As striking an example of “pure nerve*' came under my own observation two years ago, writes Charles F. Lummis. Valencia county. New Mexico, had been disgraced by a long series of cowardly and awful assassinations, done by one young Mexican desper…

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marked for death by assassins
cited from the prisoner alive or dead, and listening for the… (1891) · +1 more
rgeant’s face and started for the door. The blinded officer, even in the inconceivable anguish of the moment, thought only of his orders to bring in ( 20 ) the prisoner alive or dead, and listening for the footsteps of the fugitive, fired …
plot to kill judges and seize ballots at three precinctselection day
cited from Shortly after midnight, of election day, the… (1891)
active in the movement to overthrow the evil men who had for years exercised a reign of terror over “Bloody Valencia," was gentle, gen- erous Dumas Provencher, one of the pioneers of the territory, and he was one of the dozen of us whom t…

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