Two of his victims were Lincoln County, New Mexico, deputies killed during the Kid’s brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28, 1881. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men single-handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney – was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and cold-blooded killer. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardnerīilly the Kid – a.k.a. This hallmark among books on Billy the Kid, filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, separates myth from reality and presents an unforgettable portrait of his brief and violent life. He arose amid the mystery and myth of the swiftly vanishing frontier and, sensationalized beyond recognition by the tabloids and dime-store romances of the day, emerged as one of the most enduring icons of the American West – not to mention one of Hollywood’s most misrepresented characters.
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.
Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day.
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