Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life

Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life
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Whatever his name or alias at the momentâ€”Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonneyâ€”people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garettâ€™s six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881. Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel â€œbiographiesâ€ as well as Garettâ€™s ghost-written account, and that was just the beginning.
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Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing storyâ€”the most complete and accurate everâ€”of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexicoâ€™s bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War. In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.
Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 50-14216
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780803245532
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	50-14216
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780803245532
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life

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