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In this new revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66, re-creates the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and remains an enigma to this day. Book jacket.
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First published in 1925, 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 1881. Burns paints the Kid as a boyish Robin...
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2015.
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While many respectable books on Billy the Kid aim to demystify his illusory life, this one-of-a-kind collection proudly has no such intention. Find all of the untold and potentially true, but very unlikely and highly embellished-stories of the Kid's life, death and enthralling life thereafter. Be thrilled by sightings of Billy's ghost riding through old Fort Sumner and marvel at his search for the fabled Lost Adams Diggings. Wonder at the mysterious...
9) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
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"To Hell on a Fast Horse" 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.
10) Billy the Kid
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Traces the brief and violent life of the outlaw who gained notoriety throughout the West.
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2005
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"Billy the Kid: Beyond the Grave traces the life of this famous desperado through his role in the Lincoln County War, his alleged killing by Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy's escape, and his life for the next sixty-nine years. In 1948, an old man named William Henry Roberts was confronted with evidence that he was Billy the Kid. At first he denied his identity, but then he reluctantly admitted who he was. Based on taped interviews with Roberts, new evidence...
12) Billy the Kid
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c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Profiles the life and legends related to the famous outlaw known as Billy the Kid.
14) Billy the Kid
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c2010
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"Examines the short, violent life of Billy the Kid, including his childhood, the beginning of his criminal life, his showdowns with the law, and his rise to a myth and legend in the Old American West"--Provided by publisher.
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©1998
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In The West of Billy the Kid, Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images - many of them published here for the first time - Nolan recreates the life Billy lived and the places and people he knew. This unique assemblage is complemented by maps and a full biography that incorporates Nolan's original research, adding fresh depth and detail to the Kid's story...