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  1. Jun 3, 2022 · Born on June 5th, 1850 in Alabama, Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was raised on a Louisiana plantation. With the death of his parents in his teens, the debt against his family plantation, and the end of the Civil War, Garrett fled west to start a new life. He worked as a buffalo hunter in Texas towards the end of the 1870s but retired when he ...

  2. 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.

  3. Feb 2, 2023 · Pat Garrett was a man of the times. Nine years older than Billy, he'd been a buffalo hunter, hired gun, and cowboy before he ran for sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, on a law-and-order platform. He was appointed deputy sheriff for the last two months of 1880 before taking office January 1, 1881. At the same time he served as a deputy U.S ...

  4. Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom ...

  5. Jan 6, 2014 · The Assassination of Pat Garrett. by Mark Boardman | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized. For the 57-year-old lawman, his was an undignified death. 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 ...

  6. Pat Garrett was a cowboy, rancher, and lawman best known for killing Billy the Kid.. Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born in Chambers County, Alabama, on June 5, 1850, one of seven children born to John and Elizabeth Garrett.Three years later, Pat’s father, John Garrett, purchased a Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish, where young Garrett grew up.

  7. Pat Garrett. Patrick "Pat" Floyd Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 28, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was most known for killing Billy the Kid. [1] Although he held a number of law enforcement posts and gained a reputation for his skill in bringing in wanted men, he squandered his earnings in gambling ...

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