Bibliograph

To hell on a fast horse, the untold story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Lee Gardner

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To hell on a fast horse, the untold story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Lee Gardner

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

To hell on a fast horse

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mark Lee Gardner

Sub title

the untold story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett

Summary

From Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett's riveting chase of the notorious bandit. Billy the Kid-a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney-was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men single handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of his victims were Lincoln County, NM, deputies, killed during the Kid's brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28, 1881. After dispensing with his guards and filing through the chain securing his leg irons, The Kid danced a macabre jig on the jail's porch before riding away on a stolen horse as terrified townspeople-and many sympathizers-watched. For new sheriff, Pat Garrett, the chase was on ...To Hell on a Fast Horse recreates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first "dual biography" of the Kid and Garrett, two larger-than-life figures who would not have become the stuff of legend without the other. Drawing on voluminous primary sources and a wealth of published scholarship, Mark L. Gardner digs beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men, their relationship, and what they would come to mean to a public enamored of a violent national past

Target audience

adult

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