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Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"On a full moon July night in 1881 Sheriff Pat Garrett claimed to have killed the Kid in friend Pete Maxwell's house in Fort Sumner New Mexico. But did he? Many claimed to have seen the Kid far beyond that night. This is a novel about what really happened"--"-- Provided by publisher.
2) The Kid
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into...
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In this deeply researched novel of America's most celebrated outlaw, Mark Warren sheds light on the human side of Billy the Kid and reveals the intimate stories of the lesser-known players in his legendary life of crime. Warren's fictional composer and Santa Fe journalist, John Blessing, is assigned to report on a jailed prisoner who calls himself "William H. Bonney," but what begins as a formal interview evolves into an unexpected relationship and...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
473 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosary Without Beads is a back-hills narrative for the 1800's Lincoln County War. The novel reboots Billy the Kid's academic legend and gives voice to the silent story haunting the hills of New Mexico. Ambrosia Salazar, a sheepherder's daughter, battles against a traditional Catholic betrothal to Ramon in lustful trade for Billy. The story promises passion, Wild West violence and emotional courage as Ambrosia discovers defiant talents of her own"--...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Publication Date
2011, p2003
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spanish alchemist Franciso de la Zaragoza--more than a hundred years old and known as a wise man and healer--and Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid, meet. The men share their stories, evoking the wonder of the Old West as they wrestle with possible answers to their deepest questions.
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc
Publication Date
2017
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Colt captures the greed, cunning and vengeance that ignited the epic Lincoln County War. Powerful merchant and political strong man, James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until brash, young English business man John Tunstall hits town to challenge Dolan’s empire. War breaks out when Tunstall is murdered. Tunstall partisan William Bonney vows revenge, launching the legendary outlaw career of Billy the Kid. Tunstall and Chisum gunmen, calling...
8) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1870s New Mexico, the territory is at a crossroads. After escaping jail, William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, is a seventeen-year-old orphan who's been on the run for the better part of two years. Billy falls in with a gang of ruthless rustlers and murderers, but when Billy crosses one of the members, the gang sets out to kill him. Billy narrowly escapes, finding refuge under the tutelage of English immigrant and businessman John Tunstall. When...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war--www.imdb.com.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid--www.imdb.com.
The stalking moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and...
18) Pistols for hire
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
191 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Kill him, again
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Billy The Kid had been free of Garrett's jail in Lincoln just a few weeks when he rode into Fort Sumner that fateful night in 1881--and there, in a hail of lead, began the wildest chase in the history of the American West. Garrett killed the wrong man and so never collected the blood money for Billy's scalp (a fact long-known to the old-timers in New Mexico). That didn't mean that the mysterious but deadly Santa Fe Ring would fail to eliminate The...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publication Date
p2007
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at the age of twenty-one, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw. He arose amid the mystery and myth of the swiftly...