As striking an example of “pure nerve*'…
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Charles F. Lummisperson
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Dumas Provencherperson
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a.k.a. Provencher
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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 desperado and his
peons, a series which culminated, on the 14th
of February, in my own receipt of a leaden
valentine, in the shape of two loads of midnight
buck shot. The question whether these influen-
tial murderers should be punished had entered
into local politics, and the campaign was a very
exciting one. At some of the precincts the judges
of election and the voters were alike armed with
Winchesters and six shooters. Among those who
were 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 the assassins had marked for death.