Wallis, Michael

Summary: Historian Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007

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Geary, Rick

Summary: "An authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid's brief and turbulent life." --Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2018

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Utley, Robert M.

Summary: Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1991

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Gardner, Mark L.

Summary: Draws on primary sources to recreate Sheriff Pat Garrett's manhunt for Billy the Kid, the Wild West's most notorious outlaw, and offers a dual biography of the two legendary larger-than-life figures.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010

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Garrett, Pat F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 GAR