Billy the Kid : the endless ride / Michael Wallis.
Wallis, Michael, 1945-
2007
F786.B54 W35 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Billy the Kid : the endless ride / Michael Wallis.
Author Wallis, Michael, 1945-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780739487808 (pbk.)
9780393060683
0393060683
Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Language English
Description xvii, 328 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number F786.B54 W35 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.15/52092
Summary Historian Wallis has spent several years re-creating 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 21, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw. 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. This new biography, filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, separates myth from reality in its portrait of this brief and violent life.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index.
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Map : Billy the Kid country
Prologue. ¿Quién Es?
1. Once upon a time
2. On the trail
3. Wichita
4. Brotherhood of the gun
5. Contagious war
6. Pulp fiction
7. Silver threads among the gold
8. Land of little time
9. One step over the line
10. Gone on the scout
11. Saddle tramp
12. Kid Antrim
13. First blood
14. At large
15. Banditti
16. Seven Rivers
17. Billy Bonney
18. Eye of the storm
19. Dream killers
20. The unfortunate war spawns the myth
21. Endless war
22. Firestorm
23. Devil or angel
24. El Chivato
Epilogue : Billy's never-ending ride.

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