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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.
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico .
Aug 9, 2023 · In the desert east of Organ Mountain High School lies a road, once known as Mail-Scott Road, where Pat Garrett was killed on Feb. 29, 1908, by Wayne Brazel. In that lonely place under a creosote bush is a plaque describing the incident and the date.
Jan 6, 2014 · Pat Garrett was urinating on the side of the road to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about four miles east of town. As he was so occupied, somebody hidden about 50 feet behind him put a Winchester bulletin the back of his head.
Pat Garrett (born June 5, 1850, Chambers county, Alabama, U.S.—died February 29, 1908, near Las Cruces, New Mexico) was a Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid. Born in Alabama and reared in Louisiana, Garrett left home at about the age of 17 and headed for Texas and the life of a cowboy and buffalo hunter.
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Jan 2, 2008 · In Las Cruces, you can visit the grave of Pat Garrett and many of his descendants in the Masonic Cemetery. Six feet below lies the coffin that held the body of the tall sheriff. He was so tall, at 6’4″, that the coffin had to be specially made and sent in to Las Cruces for the burial.
Oct 11, 2017 · All they had to go on was Garrett’s story, and the evidence — Briscoe’s body — was buried miles away under a clump of mesquite. Garrett settles in New mexico. With hunters like Garrett, who could kill 60 or more buffalo a day, it did not take long for the Texas hide men to put themselves out of business.
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