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Jun 3, 2022 · Pat Garrett lived until 1908, working as a Texas Ranger, a businessman, and a part of the first Roosevelt administration before dying by violence himself. But he would always be best known as the man who killed Billy the Kid.
Oct 11, 2017 · 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. Born in Chambers County, Ala., on June 5, 1850, Patrick Floyd Garrett moved with his family to a Louisiana cotton plantation when he was 3 years old.
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.
Jan 6, 2014 · 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.
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.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid —presented here for the first time in three separate versions—stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.
Nov 25, 2017 · Pat Garrett. In New Mexico, Garrett worked as a cowboy for Pedro “Pete” Maxwell but quit to open a saloon. In 1879 he married Juanita Gutierrez, who died in childbirth less than a year after their marriage.
