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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid is a biography of William H. Bonney a.k.a. Billy the Kid written by sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico. Garrett shot and killed Bonney in 1881. In many ways, the narrative of the Wild West has endured more as legend than reality,... Read Full Overview

William H. Bonney, born in November of 1859, began his criminal career early. At the age of twelve, Billy stabbed a man in a bar fight, then spent his teenage years stealing and gambling. At seventeen he committed his first murder and earned the nickname "Billy the Kid" from... Read Full Overview

Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, was one of the most archetypal gunslingers of the Old West. By the time of his death at the age of only twenty-one, he had shot and killed eight men. Through the course of his life he terrorized large areas of the New Mexico, Arizona... Read Full Overview

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid is a biography written by Pat Garrett, a former sheriff who was responsible for killing the infamous outlaw. The book chronicles the life of Billy the Kid, from his early years as an orphaned child to his rise as a notorious criminal in the... Read Full Overview

Twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, published in 1882 by the man who killed Billy, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Frederick Nolan,... Read Full Overview

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid is the biography of William H. Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," a notorious gunman of the American Old West. Author Pat F. Garrett recounts the major events in Bonney's life, detailing his first murder at age 18 as well as his death three years... Read Full Overview

This is the biography of the violent and notorious outlaw William Bonney, "Billy the Kid", who made his name in the bloody "Lincoln County War" in New Mexico. It was written by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who knew Billy the Kid personally, captured him, and, after the Kid's daring escape... Read Full Overview

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. First published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, "the bravest and most feared' gunman of the Lincoln County,... Read Full Overview

The Authentic Story of Billy the Kid is a non-fiction book written by Pat F. Garrett. The book provides a detailed account of the life of the infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid. The author, Pat F. Garrett, was a sheriff in Lincoln County, New Mexico during the time that Billy the... Read Full Overview

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. It was first published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, "the bravest and most feared" gunman of the... Read Full Overview