EMILIO KOSTERLITZKY’S ROLLING BLOCK
Oct 26, 2021
3 minutes
BY GEORGE LAYMAN
mong the more colorful Old West figures ever to roam both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border was a man who was born in Moscow on Nov. 16, 1853, fought battles and enforced the law in Mexico, and died 74 years later in Los Angeles. It was in Sonora Emil Kosterlitzky made his mark as a commander of the , or border police, earning the nickname (“Eagle of Sonora”). In 1922 a group of his old presented him with a Model 1902 Remington rolling-block
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