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Jun 3, 2022 · By Andrew Milne | Edited By Katie Serena. Published June 3, 2022. Updated June 27, 2022. Pat Garrett didn't just kill Billy the Kid, he also became the leading expert on the outlaw's life. In a small town in northern New Mexico, a man hid in a bedroom with a loaded pistol.
Feb 2, 2023 · Garrett was correct in his estimation of The Kid — Billy was legendary, a man who had managed to escape incarceration more than once. And that included his last escape, from the custody of Sheriff Garrett. On his way to freedom, charming Billy killed two of his jailers.
Oct 11, 2017 · And in Garrett’s later years, many viewed him as a violence-prone relic from an unseemly past. Pat Garrett deserved better. The man had his flaws, but he was a sure enough hero when New Mexico needed one, and he rates in retrospect as one of the West’s greatest lawmen.
Jan 6, 2014 · 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 of his head.
Dec 9, 2019 · Share This Article. Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, had been on the trail for months. In December 1880, he had brought in the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid on charges of murdering a former county sheriff.
Apr 15, 2024 · 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 come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias).
Nov 6, 2019 · Pat Garrett, lawman, was born on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama, the son of John Lumpkin and Elizabeth Ann (Jarvis) Garrett. In 1853 the family moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, where Garrett received an elementary education. In 1869 he left home for the buffalo range in Texas. He and a friend, Skelton Glenn, hunted buffalo from ...
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