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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Paperback)
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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Paperback)
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When Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett ended Billy the Kid's 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.
The killing occurred at old Fort Sumner, New Mexico on the Pecos
River. Garrett by pure chance had encountered the Kid in a darkened
room of the Pete Maxwell house. As the unsuspecting Billy entered,
he was cut down without warning. But the Kid had his share of
friends and many of them stepped forward to level some harsh
criticism against the lawman. It soon became clear that while Pat
Garrett was an instant celebrity, he had also come away, at least
in some quarters, with a negative image. To address that problem,
he began thinking about a book to give the public his side of the
story. The editor of the "Santa Fe New Mexican," Charles Greene,
offered to publish a Garrett volume if the sheriff could find
someone to ghost write it for him. Pat enlisted his good friend
Marshall Ashmun (Ash) Upson, a journalist, to do the job. Upson
cranked out a manuscript and it was published in 1882 under the
title "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid." Sunstone's edition is
a facsimile of the 1927 edition. Before that fateful night in 1881,
there was not much in Pat Garrett's career to suggest he was headed
for a place in the history books. Alabama-born in 1850, he worked
as a cowboy and buffalo hunter in Texas. By 1878 he had drifted to
the Pecos in eastern New Mexico. Perhaps craving excitement, Pat
Garrett ran for sheriff of wild Lincoln County in the fall of 1880.
He was elected. Winning the office put him on a collision course
with the outlaw Billy and the incident that catapulted the Kid into
literary immortality.
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