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Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid - An Annotated Edition (Paperback)
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Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid - An Annotated Edition (Paperback)
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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, an authority on the American Southwest, examines
the legends introduced by The Authentic Life and shows how
Garrett's book is responsible for misconceptions about the Kid's
early life and his short, violent career. Many inaccuracies in The
Authentic Life can be attributed to a ghostwriter, Marshall Ashmun
Ash Upson, but Garrett's contributions also are flawed. As Nolan
reveals, the sheriff glossed over events that made him look less
than perfect. This new edition, complete with the original text,
corrects Upson's errors, amplifies Garrett's narrative, and
elucidates the causes and course of the Lincoln County War in New
Mexico during the 1870s. Nolan provides an introduction that
reappraises the last fatal meeting of Garrett and Billy the Kid, as
well as a postscript about the snakebitten life of the sheriff
after the moment that made him famous.
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