The Death of Billy the Kid

The Death of Billy the Kid
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Publisher : Sunstone Press
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 9780865345324
ISBN-13 : 0865345325
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Death of Billy the Kid by : John William Poe

Many years after the death of Billy the Kid, Deputy John William Poe, who was just outside the door when Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy, wrote out the whole story, which was published in a small edition. While certain statements made in the book by Poe are controversial, his account is a valuable document for anyone interested in Billy the Kid.

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101079825616
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid by : Pat Floyd Garrett

The True Death of Billy the Kid

The True Death of Billy the Kid
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Publisher : NBM
Total Pages : 66
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ISBN-10 : 9781681121369
ISBN-13 : 1681121360
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The True Death of Billy the Kid by : Rick Geary

One of the great folk legends of the Wild West, William H. Bonney went from cowboy and rancher's gunslinger to a pure outlaw, forever dodging justice in New Mexico before it was even a state. On the one hand, he was charming, fun-loving, often present at social events, quite appealing to the ladies. Also conversant in Spanish, "Billito" was popular with the Spanish speaking crowd. On the other hand, he had no compunction to coldly kill a man, a sheriff, a deputy—anyone who got in the way of his rustling cattle or horses for an illicit living. He also proved hard to keep in jail once he was caught. It is probably his daring escapes from jails that made him most famous, and this is the main subject of this biography, which traces his story up through his death by a gunshot in the pitch darkness, fired by lawmen obsessed with getting rid of him.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
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Publisher : Outlaw Books
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 1886709009
ISBN-13 : 9781886709003
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Billy the Kid by : Jannay Valdez

A collection of historical "facts" concerning this "Billy the Kid", or is it these "Billy the Kids"?

The Saga of Billy the Kid

The Saga of Billy the Kid
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076005594705
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Saga of Billy the Kid by : Walter Noble Burns

Billy the Kid's Grave

Billy the Kid's Grave
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 154240472X
ISBN-13 : 9781542404723
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Billy the Kid's Grave by : David G. Thomas

"Quien es?" The answer to this incautious question - "Who is it?" - was a bullet to the heart. That bullet -- fired by Lincoln County Sheriff Patrick F. Garrett from a .40-44 caliber single action Colt pistol -- ended the life of Billy the Kid, real name William Henry McCarty. But death - ordinarily so final - only fueled the public's fascination with Billy the Kid. What events led to Billy's killing? Was it inevitable? Was a woman involved? If so, who was she? Why has Billy's gravestone become the most famous - and most visited - Western death marker? Is Billy really buried in his grave? Is the grave in the right location? Is it true that Pat Garrett's first wife is buried in the same cemetery? Is Billy's girlfriend buried there also? The Fort Sumner cemetery where Billy's grave is located was once plowed for cultivation. Why? What town, seeking a profitable tourist attraction, tried to move Billy's body, using a phony relative to justify the action? These questions -- and many others - are answered in this book. Over 60 photos, including many historical photos never previously published.

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9780307370808
ISBN-13 : 0307370801
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by : Michael Ondaatje

Not a story about me through their eyes then. Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out. Here then is a maze to begin, be in. (p. 20) Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a highly polished and self-aware lens focused on the era of one of the most mythologized anti-heroes of the American West. This revolutionary collage of poetry and prose, layered with photos, illustrations and “clippings,” astounded Canada and the world when it was first published in 1969. It earned then-little-known Ondaatje his first of several Governor General’s Awards and brazenly challenged the world’s notions of history and literature. Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid (aka William H. Bonney / Henry McCarty / Henry Antrim) is not the clichéd dimestore comicbook gunslinger later parodied within the pages of this book. Instead, he is a beautiful and dangerous chimera with a voice: driven and kinetic, he also yearns for blankness and rest. A poet and lover, possessing intelligence and sensory discernment far beyond his life’s 21 year allotment, he is also a resolute killer. His friend and nemesis is Sheriff Pat Garrett, who will go on to his own fame (or infamy) for Billy’s execution. Himself a web of contradictions, Ondaatje’s Garrett is “a sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane” (p. 29) who has taught himself a language he’ll never use and has trained himself to be immune to intoxication. As the hero and anti-hero engage in the counterpoint that will lead to Billy’s predetermined death, they are joined by figures both real and imagined, including the homesteaders John and Sallie Chisum, Billy’s lover Angela D, and a passel of outlaws and lawmakers. The voices and images meld, joined by Ondaatje’s own, in a magnificent polyphonic dream of what it means to feel and think and freely act, knowing this breath is your last and you are about to be trapped by history. I am here with the range for everything corpuscle muscle hair hands that need the rub of metal those senses that that want to crash things with an axe that listen to deep buried veins in our palms those who move in dreams over your women night near you, every paw, the invisible hooves the mind’s invisible blackout the intricate never the body’s waiting rut. (p. 72)

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 423
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393075434
ISBN-13 : 0393075435
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by : Michael Wallis

"This might be the best Billy the Kid book to date." —Fritz Thompson, Albuquerque Journal In this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859–1881), a young man who became a legend in his time and remains an enigma to this day. In an extraordinary evocation of the legendary Old West, Wallis demonstrates why the Kid has remained one of our most popular folk heroes. Filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, Billy the Kid separates myth from reality and presents an unforgettable portrait of this brief and violent life.

Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid

Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid
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Publisher : Sunstone Press
Total Pages : 178
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780865341852
ISBN-13 : 0865341850
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid by : Helen Airy

Traces the brief life of the western outlaw whose lifestyle reflected the violence prevalent on the American frontier

The West of Billy the Kid

The West of Billy the Kid
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780806173689
ISBN-13 : 0806173688
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The West of Billy the Kid by : Frederick Nolan

In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the life Billy lived and the places and people he knew. This unique assemblage is complemented by maps and a full biography that incorporates Nolan’s original research, adding fresh depth and detail to the Kid’s story and to the lives and backgrounds of those who witnessed the events of his life and death. Here are the faces of Billy’s family, friends, and enemies: John Tunstall and John Chisum, Sheriff Pat Garrett and Governor Lew Wallace, Jimmy Dolan and Bob Olinger, Alexander McSween and Paulita Maxwell, and many others. Here are Santa Fe and Silver City as Billy the Kid saw them, Lincoln, Las Vegas, and Tascosa. Recent photographs show the Kid’s haunts as they appear today.