Oliver Lee Memorial State Park

Garrett built a case against a politically powerful and well-connected rancher named Oliver Lee and his associates.

And to give you a bit of insight into how influential he was in New Mexico, the Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is named after him.

Lee was eventually tried in 1899 in the little mining town of Hillsboro, where the attorney Albert Bacon Fall won him an acquittal.

Garrett had made powerful enemies as a result of that case, and some have argued that those enemies would hound him for the rest of his life.