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Author : Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Crime
ISBN : PRNC:32101079825616
Author : Miguel Antonio Otero
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611391008
Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in three volumes, a major contribution to New Mexico history. But he also published a biography in 1936 titled “The Real Billy the Kid.” His aim in that book, he proclaimed, was to write the Kid’s story “without embellishment, based entirely on actual fact.” Otero had known the outlaw briefly and also had known the man who killed Billy in 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett. The author recalled Garrett saying he regretted having to slay Billy. Or, as he bluntly put it, “it was simply the case of who got in the first shot. I happened to be the lucky one.” By all accounts, Billy the Kid was much adored by New Mexico’s Hispanic population. Otero asserts that the Kid was considerate of the old, the young and the poor. And he was loyal to his friends. Further, Martin Cháves of Santa Fe stated: “Billy was a perfect gentleman with a noble heart. He never killed a native citizen of New Mexico in all his career, and he had plenty of courage.” Otero was especially admiring of Billy because as a boy in Silver City, “he had loved his mother devotedly.” Such praise must be viewed in the context of the times. Other people, of course, saw Billy as an arch-villain. MIGUEL ANTONIO OTERO rightly distinguished himself as a political leader in New Mexico where he raised a family and lived out his life as a champion of the people, but he is also highly recognized for his career as an author. He published his legendary “My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882” in 1935, followed by “The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War” in 1936, “My Life on the Frontier, 1882-1897” in 1939, and “My Nine Years as Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1897-1906” in 1940.
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0008638721
Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393075435
"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 : Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0806138696
This edition, complete with the original text, provides an introduction that reappraises the last fatal meeting of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Frederick Nolan shows how the Garrett's book is responsible for misconceptions about the Kid's early life and his short, violent career.
Author : John William Poe
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780865345324
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 : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501129759
"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 : Ralph Estes
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150300662X
Everyone knows the saga of Billy the Kid. That story's been told, in an avalanche of books, songs, movies, TV programs.And yet - no one has given Billy's side. UntilMy Own Story: The Autobiography of Billy the Kid.Oh, there have been many claims that it wasn't Billy that Pat Garrett shot in Pete Maxwell's darkened bedroom on July 14, 1881. But in fact it was. Billy just didn't die then. With the help of loyal friends he played dead, was “buried” long enough for Garrett to leave, nursed back to health, made his way to Wichita, and under the name of Henry Carter became a leading rancher until cancer laid him low.And now: Billy tells his own story. What were his feelings and fears, his pleasures and regrets? What really happened, not the media and the movies' and Garrett's exaggerations. Just as Billy, as he lay dying in a care center, told it to a young Ralph Estes in 1951.
Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Criminals
ISBN : UOM:39076005594705
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803295588
Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.
Author : Daniel a Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0692437258
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 : Bob Boze Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732917124
Description: How many movies would you go to see about an outlaw named Henry the kid? probably not 44, which is how many Hollywood has made so far about Henry McCarty, the boy Outlaw who use the Alias Billy Bonnie of course we know him today is Billy the Kid. If you saw the Young Gun movies or any of the numerous other portrayals of the West's most famous boy outlaw, you no doubt have many questions about the real Billy the Kid.Did he actually kill 21 Men, one for each year of his life?Did he carve notches on his gun?Were Billy and Pat Garrett good friends?Did Billy cheat death and live out his life as Brushy Bill?Here's a factual look at Billy the Kid and his world, with many never-before-published photos. This well-crafted book is profusely Illustrated with over 460 images, including over 100 paintings and illustrations by the author, plus rare maps and images that provide a vivid look into the numerous controversial episodes in the Kids short life. It is a revolutionary, new-style history book that is informative and entertaining for young and old alike.
Author : Jim Johnson
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781977260116
Author Jim Johnson has been intrigued with the Old West, its lore, and its legends all of his life. His interest began while watching the old black and white western movies made in the 1940s and 50s. Over the years he has collected and read thousands of nonfiction books and magazines on western outlaws and lawmen. Today, his library overflows with these nonfiction western books and magazines. Jim read these books and magazine articles thoroughly and with caution. He was amazed at the contradictions, not only within books, but between books, and some of the fiction added to glamorize the books. His research over the last 25-30 years has taken him across the southwest, including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, and the midwest, including Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana. He has copies of thousands of documents from archives, government records, and internet records. He has also used online sources
Author : Theodore Taylor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547792132
This YA Western adventure imagines an alternate fate for the famous outlaw: “Readers will hang on anxiously and eagerly as the plot gallops [forward]” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). William H. Bonney Jr., better known as Billy the Kid, isn't afraid to take risks. But when a train passenger recognizes him in the middle of a heist near his hometown, it seems like the odds have finally caught up with him. Fed up with Billy's bad ways, The Law sends its best man to bring him in: Sheriff Willis Monroe, Billy's own cousin and former best friend. But Willis isn't the only one on Billy's tail. The Kid's back-stabbing partners are hunting him, too—and a conniving posse wants Billy (and the sheriff!) dead. This fictional tale of real-life legend Billy the Kid imagines William Bonney's fate had his life of crime taken a very different turn. This edition includes an author's note about the real Billy the Kid.
Author : Pat F. Garrett
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611391183
When Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett ended Billy the Kids life on the night of July 14, 1881, with a shot in the dark, he was catapulted at once into stardom in the annals of Western history. This edition is a facsimile of the 1927 text that Garrett wrote to counteract the negative image he gained after the shooting.
