First published in 1926, this entertaining and dramatic biography
forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic
heroes from the Old West and is still considered the single most
influential portrait of Billy in this century. Saga focuses on the
Kid's life and experiences in the bloody war between the
Murphy-Dolan and Tunstall-McSween gangs in and around Lincoln, New
Mexico, between 1878 and paints the Kid as a boyish Robin Hood or
romantic knight galvanised into a life of crime and killing by the
war's violence and bloodshed. Billy represented the romantic and
anarchic Old West that the march of civilisation was rapidly
displacing1881.Burns, his destroyer was Pat Garrett, the courageous
sheriff of Lincoln County. Garrett's shooting of Billy in 1881
hastened the closing of the American frontier. Walter Noble Burns's
'Saga of Billy the Kid' kindled a fascination in Billy the Kid that
survives to this day. Richard W. Etulain's foreword discusses the
singular importance of Saga in the historical literature on Billy
the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
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