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River Guards and Rangers in Camp [Postcard]Description
1907 real picture postcard of “River Guards and Rangers in Camp.” The back of the postcard identifies the man sitting in the front row as “Guapo.”Context
San Diego's tradition of violence, usually politically motivated, persisted into the twentieth century. On December 20, 1907, shortly after engineering a sweeping guarache triumph in the county elections, John Cleary, the county tax assessor and leader of the Duval County Democratic Party, was killed by a shotgun blast while sitting in a San Diego restaurant. His assassin escaped while local lawmen were enjoying a fiesta, which they claimed had drowned out the sound of the shooting. Two Texas Rangers arrived on the following morning. These eight men are attributed as the two Texas Rangers and six other men who participated in the investigation.