Pat F Garrett

Hunter & Hunted--the lives of two legendary gunfightersIn the history of the Wild West there are a number of notable characters whose names will be forever linked. Among them, none are more familiar than the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid and the lawman Pat Garrett. Henry McCarty, also known as William H. Bonney, had a short, troubled life and in just six years, until he was shot dead at the age of 21 years, he progressed from petty thief to outlaw, gunfighter and murderer with eight dead men to his credit. When Billy the Kid rode into Lincoln County, New Mexico it brought him to the attention of Patrick Garrett, who had been elected sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 having been, in his time, a buffalo hunter and a cowboy. Garrett caught 'the Kid' in 1881, he was tried and sentenced to hang, but escaped from custody. Garrett again set out to hunt him down. He caught up with him three months later at Fort Sumner where, in the middle of the night, he shot him through the heart. Garrett's own career was brought to a close in 1908 when he was also shot to death. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Hunter & Hunted--the lives of two legendary gunfightersIn the history of the Wild West there are a number of notable characters whose names will be forever linked. Among them, none are more familiar than the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid and the lawman Pat Garrett. Henry McCarty, also known as William H. Bonney, had a short, troubled life and in just six years, until he was shot dead at the age of 21 years, he progressed from petty thief to outlaw, gunfighter and murderer with eight dead men to his credit. When Billy the Kid rode into Lincoln County, New Mexico it brought him to the attention of Patrick Garrett, who had been elected sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 having been, in his time, a buffalo hunter and a cowboy. Garrett caught 'the Kid' in 1881, he was tried and sentenced to hang, but escaped from custody. Garrett again set out to hunt him down. He caught up with him three months later at Fort Sumner where, in the middle of the night, he shot him through the heart. Garrett's own career was brought to a close in 1908 when he was also shot to death. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Wer war Billy the Kid, und was brachte den Kleinstadtjungen dazu, einer der ber chtigtsten Banditen des Wilden Westens zu werden? Geboren im November 1859 als William Henry McCarty, begann Billy seine kriminelle Karriere bereits im Alter von zw lf Jahren, als er einen Mann im Zuge einer Kneipenschl gerei erstach. Danach fuhr er bis zu seinem Tode damit fort, Pferde und Vieh zu stehlen, zu spielen und zu morden. Er behauptete sp ter, 21 M nner get tet zu haben, einen f r jedes Jahr seines Lebens. Ob es wirklich so viele waren, ist nicht bekannt; aber es ist gewiss, dass er mehrere M nner get tet hat, dass er verhaftet und wegen Mordes zum Tode verurteilt wurde, bevor er die verh ngnisvolle Flucht wagte, die ihm letztlich nicht die ersehnte Freiheit, sondern den Tod brachte. Mehr als 130 Jahre nach Billy the Kids Tod im Jahr 1881 erfreuen sich B cher und Verfilmungen ber diesen Gesetzlosen des Wilden Westens immer noch gro er Beliebtheit. Und sie alle gehen auf eine Quelle zur ck: "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid", jene spannende Biographie, die nur acht Monate nach seinem Tod ausgerechnet von dem Mann ver ffentlicht wurde, der ihn t tete, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Alle sp teren B cher und Verfilmungen, die sich auf Billy the Kid beziehen, basieren auf Garretts hier vorliegendem Buch, das uns Schritt f r Schritt durch Billy the Kids Leben begleitet. Deutsche Erstausgabe.

William H. Bonney, born in November of 1859, began his criminal career early. At the age of twelve, Billy stabbed a man in a bar fight, then spent his teenage years stealing and gambling. At seventeen he committed his first murder and earned the nickname "Billy the Kid" from the news reporters who followed his exploits and helped his reputation reach epic heights. Here, Pat F. Garrett, the Sheriff of Lincoln County, does his best to tell us the incredible story of the kid who became a coldblooded outlaw. Written just eight months after he shot Billy in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 1881?a happenstance meeting at the home of Pete Maxwell? Garrett takes us through Billy's earliest days in New York, his move west, adventures in Mexico, and Billy's repeated arrests and escapes?all of which led to the Kid's eventual death. More than 100 years after the death of Billy the Kid, the popular legends surrounding his life show no sign of dissipating. Complete with a new foreword for this edition, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid is both a tribute and an exposé from the man who took him down.

More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, published in 1882 by the man who killed Billy, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Frederick Nolan, an authority on the American Southwest, examines the legends introduced by The Authentic Life and shows how Garrett's book is responsible for misconceptions about the Kid's early life and his short, violent career. This edition, complete with the original text, corrects errors, amplifies Garrett's narrative, and elucidates the causes and course of the Lincoln County War in New Mexico during the 1870s. Nolan provides an introduction that reappraises the last, fatal meeting of Garrett and Billy the Kid, as well as a postscript about the sheriff's snakebitten life following the moment that made him famous.

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. First published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, ""the bravest and most feared' gunman of the Lincoln County, New Mexico, cattle war, it is at once the most authoritative biography of William H. Bonney and the foundation of the Billy the Kid legend.