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Oct 20, 2014 · The Billy the Kid Reader. Frederick Nolan. University of Oklahoma Press, Oct 20, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. Despite the countless books and films devoted to him, Billy the Kid remains one of the most elusive figures of the Old West. Now, award-winning western historian Frederick Nolan has scoured the published literature to ...
Dec 1, 2013 · Paperback. $19.95 42 Used from $2.84 16 New from $15.02 1 Collectible from $6.99. Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an ...
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Mar 6, 2021 · 5.0 out of 5 stars A most fascinating book! Billy the Kid possiblity lived to the age of 90. Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023. Verified Purchase.
- Daniel A. Edwards
1994 (New York, Indian Head Books) The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, The Noted Desperado of the Southwest is a biography and partly first-hand account written by Pat Garrett, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, in collaboration with a ghostwriter, Marshall Ashmun "Ash" Upson. During the summer of 1881 in a small New Mexican village ...
Jan 1, 1997 · Mr. Truska's Billy the Kid: His Life and Legend contains a pithy biography circa early 1990's of William McCarty absent many questionable facts and conjectures. However, the true value of Truska's tome is his enumeration and examination of the histories, fictions, and motion pictures associated with shaping the story or narrative of "Billy the ...
- Jon Tuska
Oct 1, 1989 · Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. Hardcover – October 1, 1989. Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing ...
- Robert M. Utley
Nov 1, 2014 · Nevertheless, without evidence, the story of the heroic Sheriff stood for almost 70 years. Then, in 1950, an old man from Hico, TX petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon for crimes he committed as Billy the Kid. No one took him seriously, and yet the old man was an exact match in physical characteristics and knew intimate details ...
