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Jul 31, 2019 · It covers Garrett's various law-enforcement positions, the Fountain murder trial and the murder of Garrett himself in 1908. The arrest of suspect Wayne Brazel and the trial are reported in detail. The book includes 102 images, some of which are published for the first time."
- David G. Thomas
Feb 26, 2010 · On the south side of US-70 slightly east of Las Cruces (which of this writing, was in the parking lot of a day care), lies this historic marker detailing Pat Garrett's death. Reading: Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot and killed William "Billy the Kid" Bonney at Fort Sumner in 1881, was himself murdered at a remote site enarby on February 29, 1908. Wayne Brazel, a local cowboy ...
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Oct 11, 2017 · Pat Garrett dies in shooting. On February 29, 1908, Pat’s troubled life ended on a lonely stretch of road in Alameda Arroyo, a few miles east of Las Cruces. Cowpoke Wayne Brazel admitted to shooting Garrett, but said he had done so in self-defense as the two argued over a lease.
May 19, 2017 · Pat Garrett's story. ... who was convicted of murder in Mesilla in March 1881. After the Kid killed his guards and escaped, Garrett tracked him down at Fort Sumner, and shot him dead on the night ...
Jun 5, 2012 · Pat Garrett. American Wild West Law Officer. He gained fame for being the lawman who shot and killed Billy the Kid, a young man credited with allegedly nine to 21 murders, depending on the source. During the bloody Lincoln County War, Lincoln Sheriff Bill Brady was killed with a spray of many bullets, but Billy, the Kid was...
Nov 28, 2020 · Pat Garrett Marker. Inscription. Pioneer law officer Patrick F. Garrett, renowned for killing outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881, lived in a house at this site during his residence in Uvalde. He had come from Alabama to Texas in 1869; here he worked as a farmer, cowboy, and buffalo hunter. He served as sheriff in several cities and also dealt in ...
The place, as near as I can reckon, where the killer of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, was himself murdered in Feb of 1908 while traveling from his home in the Organ Mountains into Las Cruces, NM. A crude marker was placed at the spot by Garrett's youngest son, Jarvis. Aside from being Billy the Kid's killer, Garrett's claims to fame were as Lincoln County Sheriff following the famed Lincoln ...
