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.

When Bill Boone and Neva Winters found each other, it seemed as if a generations long feud had finally ended. Then the elder Boone and Winters were found where they'd shot it out, and peal of weddings bells changed to the whine of bullets and moans of dying men...

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Law in the valley was very simple--the man with the fastest draw lived longer...

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 cattle war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. This book is at once the most authoritative biography of William H. Bonney and the foundation of the Billy the Kid legend.Reputed to have killed his first man at the ...

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 forw...

Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid is a wonderful read for aficionados of the anything-goes Wild West.

Billy the Kid was a real-life outlaw, a cattle rustler in the southwest who was wanted—dead or alive. One fateful night in 1881, he was shot and killed in a darkened room by nemesis Sheriff Pat Garnett. With this account, the sheriff aimed to set the record straight about his final showdown with the Kid. Since its publication, The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid has served as a primary source on this legendary outlaw’s life for historians and storytellers alike.

Angus MacDill was a big man, a shaggy bear of a man, with shoulders and arms packed with muscles that a lifetime of toil had given him. He had a large head and a thick mane oi black hair, and at most times his expression was that of a man who thought only of his work and the profits it would bring him.But his expression was different now. It was dried out and deeply bitten by seams of bitterness, and there was a dull look of shock in his eyes as he listened to the sheriff's story. ...

Sometimes it really does happen — a man and girl look at each other and know that this moment is what they've always waited for. And if the girl is engaged to another man, what then?

You can push a nester around in town, but when it comes to taking his land—come shooting!

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