The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid
Author: Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher:
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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The Saga of Billy the Kid
Author: Walter Noble Burns
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly the Kid
Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826317704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis tour de force of western scholarship, a revised and expanded version of Tuska's Billy the Kid: A Bio-Bibliography, adds ten year's worth of scholarship to the earlier effort. Tuska provides a carefully documented biography of the Kid; bibliographical essays on historical scholarship, fiction, films, and cultural criticism; and a chronology of his life and death. Tuska's careful scholarship and analysis of sources refutes the mythical embellishments that have surrounded Billy the Kid. He concludes that in order for such a legend to arise, it is necessary for a historical character to have qualities that permit ambiguous interpretations of his behavior. "A model for others who would study legendary heroes of the American West". -- Choice "Anyone interested in Western outlaws will find this handsomely illustrated volume indispensable". -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner
The True Death of Billy the Kid
Author: Rick Geary
Publisher: NBM
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1681121360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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
Author: Daniel a Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780692437254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
Author: Pat F. Garrett
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1611391180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
Billy the Kid
Author: Robert M. Utley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780803295582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
Author: William Kennedy
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1983-01-27
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0140063404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second novel in William Kennedy’s much-loved Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of the Albany sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor, until he finds himself in the dangerous position of potential go-between in the kidnapping of a political boss’s son.
The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid
Author: John Lemay
Publisher: Bicep Books
Published: 2020-09-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781953221919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItinerant journalist Ash Upson was a true "rolling stone" of the western frontier, first kicking around New York with Edgar Allen Poe and then tutoring the children of Mormon leader Brigham Young in Utah before making his way to New Mexico. There he befriended two of the Wild West's greatest legends: outlaw Billy the Kid and the man who slayed him, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Told mostly through Upson's own letters to his family back East, learn the history of the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid, and Pat Garrett firsthand from the very man who knew them best: Ash Upson.
The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Author: Paul Seydor
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2015-02-15
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 0810168200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor reconstructs the riveting history of a brilliant director fighting to preserve an artistic vision while wrestling with his own self‐destructive demons. Meticulously comparing the film five extant versions, Seydor documents why none is definitive, including the 2005 Special Edition, for which he served as consultant. Viewing Peckinpah’s last Western from a variety of fresh perspectives, Seydor establishes a nearly direct line from the book Garrett wrote after he killed Billy the Kid to Peckinpah’s film ninety-one years later and shows how, even with directors as singular as this one, filmmaking is a collaborative medium. Art, business, history, genius, and ego all collide in this story of a great director navigating the treacherous waters of collaboration, compromise, and commerce to create a flawed but enduringly powerful masterpiece.
