The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid
Author : Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Pat Garrett
Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1983-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806118383
Book Description
Biography of the man who killed Billy the Kid, this thorough and well-written analysis deals effectively with almost every question that has been raised about the controversial life and death of Pat Garrett.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them
Author : John P. Wilson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826333273
Book Description
Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters, including William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Selman, Hugh Beckwith, Charlie Siringo, and Pat Coghlan. Meadows helped investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and he later bought part of downtown Tularosa, New Mexico, where he served a term as mayor. The recollections gathered here are based on Meadows’s interviews with a reporter for the Alamogordo News, a partial transcript of his reminiscences given at the Lincoln State Monument, and a talk he gave by invitation in Roswell, New Mexico, to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 MGM movie Billy the Kid.
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Author : Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0061969532
Book Description
“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett
Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1630761052
Book Description
Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, claimed responsibility for the death of the notorious outlaw, Billy the Kid. This charge would not be his first lie, nor would it be his last, but it would be, by far, the most prominent. In a departure from the overwhelming literature that takes lawman Pat Garrett’s story—that he killed The Kid in a happenstance meeting in an isolated cabin—as historical truth, W.C. Jameson presents evidence to the contrary.
The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Author : Paul Seydor
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810168200
Book Description
Long 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.
The Saga of Billy the Kid
Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Book Description
Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett
Author : John LeMay
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1625858167
Book Description
While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett's investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and a dead deputy. Some say that Garrett faked the details the night the Kid was brought to ultimate justice, while others swear another wannabe hero did him in. In perfect irony, Garrett's own 1908 death is shrouded in mystery. Some report he died by the hand of Billy the Kid himself. Author John LeMay exposes fabricated tales for what they are and focuses on memories long forgotten about Billy the Kid's personal grave digger, Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them
Author : John P. Meadows
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826333254
Book Description
Meadows helped investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and later bought part of downtown Tularosa, New Mexico, where he served a term as mayor." "These recollections are an authentic voice of the frontier West. They inform the modern reader about what one man saw and heard in his long career in southern New Mexico."--Jacket.
The Death of Billy the Kid
Author : John William Poe
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0865345325
Book Description
Many years after the death of Billy the Kid, Deputy John William Poe, who was just outside the door when Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy, wrote out the whole story, which was published in a small edition. While certain statements made in the book by Poe are controversial, his account is a valuable document for anyone interested in Billy the Kid.
