Background
He grew up on the Hondo River, but his family eventually settled a few miles west of Lincoln.
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Yginio Salazar
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Yginio learned how to play the fiddle when he was little and was hired to play at a dance at Fort Stanton and was paid $50 for doing lieutenant Also, Yginio became a skilled horseman and good with a rifle and pistol. Yginio met Billy the Kid, and looked up to him as a role model.
The only battle Yginio fought in during the Lincoln County War was the Five-Day Battle and was one of the fourteen Regulators inside the McSween house.
When the Regulators had to flee the burning home, he was shot in the back and shoulder and pretended to be dead so he wouldn"t be shot again. Yginio recovered and was one of the former Regulators that met with J. J. Dolan and his henchman in February 1879 to discuss peace.
Yginio later became an honest rancher. After Billy the Kid escaped from jail in Lincoln, killing his two guards, he fled to Yginio"s home, and Yginio cut off his shackles and federal him.
He continued to farm in Lincoln County until his death on January 7, 1936.
