Billy The Kid The Endless Ride

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393075435

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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis Pdf

"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.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501129759

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The Kid by Ron Hansen Pdf

"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the Old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here"--]cProvided by publisher.

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0893661856

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Albergo Empedocle and Other Early Writings by Edward Morgan Forster Pdf

Author : Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Crime
ISBN : PRNC:32101079825616

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

Author : Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061969539

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To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner Pdf

“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Criminals
ISBN : UOM:39076005594705

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The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns Pdf

Author : Daniel a Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0692437258

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Billy the Kid by Daniel a Edwards Pdf

In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again. Never, that is, until 1948 when he came out of hiding after almost 70 years. In the course of proving his identity to a court of law the outlaw revealed that his friend Billy the Kid was not killed by Pat Garrett but was still alive even to that day. After a period of research and persistence the young lawyer was finally led to a destitute old man in Texas who was named not William H. Bonney but William H. Roberts, although Bonney had been an alias that he had used. Roberts agreed to reveal himself as Billy the Kid if the lawyer would help him obtain a pardon so he could die a free man. You see, the Kid was still wanted for murder so to come forward was to risk being sentenced and put to death, but this was a risk that William H. Roberts was willing to take. He told his story only one time, to one man. This is his story, now presented for the first time with new photographic evidence and research that supports his claim that he was the one true Billy the Kid of legend.

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803295669

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Billy the Kid by Robert M. Utley Pdf

Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.

Author : John William Poe
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780865345324

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The Death of Billy the Kid by John William Poe Pdf

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.

Author : Gale Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1949626059

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Billy the Kid's Writings, Words, and Wit by Gale Cooper Pdf

Gale Cooper's Billy the Kid's Writings, Words, and Wit, in hardcover and paperback, 592 pages, has all written and recorded words of William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid; with the author's newly authenticated Billy the Kid letter.

Author : Doris Roberts,Danelle Morton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031231227X

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Are You Hungry, Dear? by Doris Roberts,Danelle Morton Pdf

In Are You Hungry, Dear?, Doris takes her signature line from the show and makes it her own in a book that pairs hilarious episodes and dramatic turning points from her fascinating life with delicious recipes from her own card file. She shares the lessons learned in two marriages and numerous love affairs, her struggles with her own family, and her heroic efforts to build a career and raise a son on her own. Readers who love tough, feisty, judg-mental Marie Barone will see how Doris is all that and more: tough, sweet, brave, direct, and vibrant. Readers will embrace the un-for-get-table life of this very open star, and relate to the issues-like ageism in Hollywood, sex in the senior years, or her daughter-in-law's imperfect meat sauce-Doris cares about passionately.

Author : Jasper Ridley
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611450101

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The Freemasons by Jasper Ridley Pdf

“Captures the organization's fundamental outlook, and its morality. . . . Ridley is an enchanting storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393342185

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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd by Michael Wallis Pdf

"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781607748700

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Dust & Grooves by Eilon Paz Pdf

A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0806138246

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Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation by Michael Wallis Pdf

A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairies In Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation—a title inspired by the lyrics of Woody Guthrie—best-selling author Michael Wallis creates a brilliant tableau of America’s heartland. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this collection of sixteen essays reflects the finest examples of Wallis’s writing and harkens back to a time before fast food and malls replaced family-owned diners along Route 66. From tales of the notorious Oklahoma panhandle, where “the only law was the colt and the carbine,” to the fate of Woody Guthrie’s mother Nora, who, burdened by depression, set fire to her kids and spent the last years of her life in an asylum, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation brings to life some of Oklahoma’s most memorable characters—the famous and infamous, the ordinary and down-home. “Enclosed within the covers of this book are some of my favorite spoonfuls of Oklahoma,” says Wallis. The result is a quintessential American book—a crazy quilt of stories and a powerful portrait of Okie identity.